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English Dictionary: collocation by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
collocation
n
  1. a grouping of words in a sentence
  2. the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
    Synonym(s): juxtaposition, apposition, collocation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Collocation \Col`lo*ca"tion\, n. [L. collocatio.]
      The act of placing; the state of being placed with something
      else; disposition in place; arrangement.
  
               The choice and collocation of words.      --Sir W.
                                                                              Jones.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   collocation
  
      {co-location}
  
  
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