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Colligation vs Collimation - What's the difference?

colligation | collimation |

As nouns the difference between colligation and collimation

is that colligation is a binding together while collimation is the act of collimating or something collimated.

colligation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A binding together.
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)
  • (logic) The formulation of a general hypothesis which seeks to connect two or more facts.
    • (Whewell)
    (John Stuart Mill)
  • (linguistics) The co-occurrence of syntactic categories, usually within a sentence.

    • Derived terms

    * colligational

    See also

    * (logic) intersection * (linguistics) collocation

    collimation

    English

    Noun

  • the act of collimating or something collimated
  • aligning lenses along line of sight to minimize aberrations

    • Related terms

    * collimate * collimator