English-Finnish translations for collocation

• kollokaatio
  Verbillä "nousta" muodostetaan substantiivin "valta" kanssa kollokaatio, sillä "valtaan" "noustaan" eikä esimerkiksi "saavuta".

Definition of collocation

• The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds
• Such a specific grouping
• A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance , often representing an established name for, or idiomatic way of conveying, a particular semantic concept
• A method of finding an approximate solution of an ordinary differential equation $L[y]=0$ by determining coefficients in an expansion $y\; =\; y\_\{0\}\; +\; \backslash sum\_\{l=0\}^\{q\}\backslash alpha\_\{l\}\; y\_\{l\}$ so as to make $L[y]$ vanish at prescribed points; the expansion with the coefficients thus found is the sought approximation

Related words

• collocate
• collocutor
• collocation test