collocation
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Also, “hyperscalers and collocation companies are expected to invest about $7 trillion in data center infrastructure globally over the course of 2025 to 2030, with about $800 billion going towards electrical equipment and mechanical equipment.”
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
Linguists call it collocation: the likelihood of two words occurring together.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2016
It’s a work of journalism that never felt like journalism, a collocation of short quotes, a book that’s both joyful and angry, a book to get lost in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2016
Notably, the script used to analyze the texts relied on modified versions of four of the Natural Language Toolkit’s prepackaged modules: the word tokenizer, part of speech tagger, WordNetLemmatizer, and collocation finder.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 26, 2012
From the days of Grecian atomism men have attempted to show that all change in the Universe is ultimately reducible to changes of place, order, spatial arrangement and collocation, of those hypothetical atomic factors.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
But the strict observance of position is in effect the strict avoidance of unclassical collocations of syllables: it is almost wholly negative.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson
Their words are ideas—their words are images, enchanting collocations and unforgettable signs.
From The Tragic Muse by James, Henry
Derivative laws commonly depend on collocations 39 3.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart
Derivative laws, when not casual, are almost always contingent on collocations 78 2.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart
The laws of clash, the effects of distance upon attraction and repulsion, all seem arbitrary collocations of data.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William