different between intersection vs colligation

English

Etymology

From Middle French intersection, from Latin intersecti?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nt???s?k??n/, /??nt???s?k??n/

Noun

intersection (plural intersections)

1. The junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.
2. Any overlap, confluence, or crossover.
3. (geometry) The point or set of points common to two geometrical objects (such as the point where two lines meet or the line where two planes intersect).
4. (set theory) The set containing all the elements that are common to two or more sets.
5. (sports) The element where two or more straight lines of synchronized skaters pass through each other.[1]
6. (category theory) The pullback of a corner of monics.

Synonyms

• (junction of paths): crossroads

Related terms

Translations

See also

• corner
• crossroad, crossroads
• junction
• overlap
• union
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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