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coordination

The definition of coordination is being able to move and use your body effectively and multiple people or things working well together.

(noun)

An example of coordination is when a gymnast walks on a tightrope without falling.
An example of coordination is when two people work together to plan or coordinate a party.

See coordination in Webster's New World College Dictionary

or co-ordination

noun

a coordinating or being coordinated
the state or relation of being coordinate; harmonious adjustment or action, as of muscles in producing complex movements

Origin: LL coordinatio

Also

See coordination in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

a. The act of coordinating.
b. The state of being coordinate; harmonious adjustment or interaction.
Physiology Harmonious functioning of muscles or groups of muscles in the execution of movements.
Grammar The linking of two syntactically equal units, as by a coordinate conjunction.

Origin:

Origin: French

Origin: , from Medieval Latin coōrdinātiō, coōrdinātiōn-

Origin: : co-, co-

Origin: + Latin ōrdinātiō, arrangement (from ōrdinātus, past participle of ōrdināre, to arrange in order, from ōrdō, ōrdin-, order; see ar- in Indo-European roots)