Coordination vs Agreement - What's the difference?
coordination | agreement |
the act of coordinating, making different people or things work together for a goal or effect.
* 1919: Robert W. Chambers, In Secret
the resulting state of working together; cooperation; synchronization
* 1900: Irving Bacheller, Eben Holden, A Tale of the North Country
the ability to coordinate one's senses and physical movements in order to act skillfully.
(possibly archaic) the state of being equal in rank or power.
* c. 1833: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(grammar) an equal joining together two or more phrases or clauses, for example, using and'', ''or'', or ''but .
(chemistry) The reaction of one or more ligands with a metal ion to form a coordination compound
(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
(uncountable, legal) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
(uncountable, linguistics) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
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An agreeable quality.
* 1650 , (John Donne), "Elegie XVII":
As nouns the difference between coordination and agreement
is that coordination is while agreement is (countable) an understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.coordination
English
(wikipedia coordination)Alternative forms
* co-ordination,Noun
(en-noun)- Then there's the State Service and the police and several other services. And there is no proper co-ordination , no single head for all these agencies.
- We stood dodging each other a moment with that unfortunate co-ordination of purpose men sometimes encounter when passing each other.
- I'm terrible at sports -- I have no coordination .
- There are two possible modes of unity in a State; one by absolute coordination of each to all, and of all to each; the other by subordination of classes and offices.
Antonyms
* incoordination * subordinationDerived terms
* coordination compound * coordination number * colour coordination, color coordination * hand-eye coordinationagreement
English
Noun
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.
- Having clarified what we mean by ‘Person? and ‘Number?, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement . More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agree? with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.
- Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].