different between coordination vs disjuncture

English

Alternative forms

• co-ordination, coördination

Etymology

From Middle French coordination, from Late Latin coordinationem (accusative of coordinatio), from Latin coordinare.Morphologically coordinate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ko????d??ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: co?or?di?na?tion

Noun

coordination (usually uncountable, plural coordinations)

1. The act of coordinating, making different people or things work together for a goal or effect.
   • 1919, Robert W. Chambers, In Secret

     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.

2. The resulting state of working together; cooperation; synchronization.
3. The ability to coordinate one's senses and physical movements in order to act skillfully.

   I'm terrible at sports; I have no coordination.

4. (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

     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.

5. (grammar) An equal joining together of two or more phrases or clauses, for example, using and, or, or but.
6. (chemistry) The reaction of one or more ligands with a metal ion to form a coordination compound.

Antonyms

• incoordination
• subordination

Derived terms

Related terms

• coordinated, uncoordinated

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin co?rdin?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.??.di.na.sj??/

Noun

coordination f (plural coordinations)

1. coordination

Derived terms

Related terms

• coordonner

Further reading

• “coordination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

dis- +? juncture

Noun

disjuncture (plural disjunctures)

1. A lack of union, or lack of coordination, or separation.
   • 2005, Alison I. Griffith and Dorothy E. Smith, Mothering for Schooling,^[1] page 47:

     In this chapter, we look at how women coordinate the everyday scheduling disjuncture between paid employment, both theirs and their husbands,^[sic] and the scheduling of the school.

Latin

Participle

disj?nct?re

1. vocative masculine singular of disj?nct?rus