ordination
noun
[ ɔːdɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n ]
• the action of ordaining someone in holy orders.
• "the ordination of women"
• a statistical technique in which data from a large number of sites or populations are represented as points in a multidimensional space.
• the action of decreeing or ordaining.
Origin:
late Middle English (in the general sense ‘arrangement in order’): from Latin ordinatio(n- ), from Latin ordinare ‘put in order’ (see ordain).
