ordination

ordination
noun
  1. [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
  2. [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
  1. late Middle English (in the general sense 'arrangement in order'): from Latin ordinatio(n-), from Latin ordinare 'put in order' (see ordain)
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