different between ligation vs delegation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ligatio, ligationis, from Latin ligo. Doublet of liaison.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

ligation (countable and uncountable, plural ligations)

1. Something that ties, a ligature.
2. The act of tying, of applying a ligature.
3. The state of having a ligature, of being tied.
4. (medicine) The act of tying off or sealing a blood vessel or fallopian tube during surgery.
5. (chemistry) The formation of a complex by reaction with a ligand.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• intaglio, logitian, taglioni

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?l?g?ti?, d?l?g?ti?nis, from d?l?g?: confer French délégation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?l???e???n/

  Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

delegation (countable and uncountable, plural delegations)

1. An act of delegating.
2. A group of delegates used to discuss issues with an opponent.
3. (computing) A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.

   Hyponyms: multicast delegation, singlecast delegation

4. (law) The act whereby or constellation in which the performance of an obligation (owed to an obligee, presuming its validity, irrespective of the obligation as the target of the delegation rarely called delegatary) is assigned by its debtor (delegator, obligor) to and towards another party (delegatee, delegate)

Related terms

• delegate

Translations

See also

• consultation link

Further reading

• Restament, Second, of Contracts §§ 318–328
• UCC 2-210

Anagrams

• degelation, eloignated

Swedish

Etymology

delegera +? -ation

Noun

delegation c

1. a delegation

Declension