different between incoordination vs coordination

English

Etymology

From in- +? coordination.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

incoordination (countable and uncountable, plural incoordinations)

1. (chiefly physiology) Lack of coordination, especially in terms of muscle control.
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 527:

     Charcot later gave the classical picture of incoordination, tremor and nystagmus.

Antonyms

• coordination

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).