different between colligation vs collimation

English

Etymology

From Latin colligatio.

Noun

colligation (countable and uncountable, plural colligations)

1. A binding together.
2. (logic) The formulation of a general hypothesis which seeks to connect two or more facts.
   • 2011, Laura J. Snyder, The Philosophical Breakfast Club Broadway Books, page 252 (in a discussion of William Whewell's Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon Their History (1840))

     In order to have knowledge of the physical world, we use our ideas and concepts as the "thread" on which we string the facts about the world, the "pearls." We do this by a process Whewell called colligation.
3. (linguistics) The co-occurrence of syntactic categories, usually within a sentence.

Derived terms

• colligational

Translations

See also

• (logic): intersection
• (linguistics): collocation

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

collimation (countable and uncountable, plural collimations)

1. the act of collimating or something collimated
2. aligning lenses along line of sight to minimize aberrations

Related terms

• collimate
• collimator

French

Noun

collimation f (plural collimations)

1. collimation