Definition of "ordination" in English

noun

1. The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.

2. (Christianity) The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.

3. (Buddhism) the ceremony in which a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni is ordained into the sangha

4. (statistics, ecology) A statistical technique for ordering data from a large number of sites or populations by arranging the data as points in a multidimensional coordinate frame, in which patterns can be discerned; an instance of this.

   • Coordinate term: cluster analysis