coordination Definition
co·ordi·na·tion (kō ôrd′'n ā′s̸hən)
noun
- a coordinating or being coordinated
- the state or relation of being coordinate; harmonious adjustment or action, as of muscles in producing complex movements
Etymology: LL coordinatio
coordination Usage Examples
Converse of object
- facilitate: The company commanders are likely in the vicinity of the support battalion CP to facilitate coordination.
- strengthen: Other instruments with which to strengthen coordination depend on the choice of the body responsible for its promotion.
- accomplish: Many in industry and government have been focusing on exactly how to accomplish this coordination for at least the last five years.
- improve: Much of the report relates to Home Office issues and ways to improve coordination at both local and national level.
- enhance: We need to enhance coordination in this regard to create a good environment for the talks from the press.
Adjective modifier
- neuromuscular: This means you may have to change your neuromuscular coordination to adapt.
- muscular: The title, AtaXia, comes from Greek and indicates a medical condition interfering with muscular coordination.
- improved: MS patients who use cannabis report a soothing of the painful muscle spasms and improved muscle coordination.
- close: The RAS may operate independently of or in close coordination with the ACS, or it may provide troops to the ACS.
- effective: Provide effective coordination of administrative staff in offices across the country.
Modifies a noun
- chemistry: We investigate aspects of the coordination chemistry of the transition metals.
- sphere: The zinc coordination sphere, bond lengths and angles are shown in table 4.3.
- geometry: Various problems are associated with such practices, including the coexistence of different possible configurations and coordination geometry of the titanium species.
- mechanism: Presidencies also differ in their use of the coordination mechanism.
Noun used with modifier
- hand-eye: Touch Balloons Develop hand-eye coordination skills by popping the balloons.
- eye-hand: Occupational Therapists recommend mazes as fun therapeutic exercises to their patients to improve their fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination!
- interagency: For example, we are taking steps to improve interagency coordination.
- hand/eye: They're also really good for hand/eye coordination etc - so you could convice yourself it was ' educational ' too!
- hand-to-eye: So are games which are designed to develop hand-to-eye coordination.
- visuomotor: The fly visual system will be described as a simple but robust and efficient example of visuomotor coordination, before considering vision in primates.
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