[mass noun]the action of ordaining or conferring holy orders on someone 授圣职 ■[count noun]a ceremony in which someone is ordained 授圣职礼
[count noun](chiefly Ecology)a statistical technique in which data from a large number of sites or populations are represented as points in a multidimensional space (主生态)(统计技术)分布序列
语源
late Middle English (in the general sense 'arrangement in order'): from Latin ordinatio(n-), from Latin ordinare 'put in order' (see ordain)