Coordination vs Liaison - What's the difference?
coordination | liaison |
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
Communication between two parties or groups.
Co-operation, working together.
A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war.
A tryst, romantic meeting.
(figuratively) An illicit sexual relationship or affair.
(linguistics) The phonological fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs, for example intrusion, consonant-vowel linking, etc. In the context of some languages, such as French, liaison can refer specifically to a normally silent final consonant, being pronounced when the next word begins with a vowel, and can often also include the intrusion of a "t" in certain fixed chunks of language such as the question form "pense-t-il ".
As nouns the difference between coordination and liaison
is that coordination is the act of coordinating, making different people or things work together for a goal or effect while liaison is communication between two parties or groups.As a verb liaison is
to liaise.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.
