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
A more natural, and certainly more cheerful, collocation would class them with free schools, museums, and public parks, as Jevons himself afterwards suggests.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
The permanent and unchangeable substance is thus a mere fiction of ignorance, as there are only the passing collocations of qualities.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
The conditions and collocations of the reals change constantly, but the reals themselves are unchangeable.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
These are ordinarily true only within certain limits of time, place, and circumstance, since, beyond these, there may be different collocations or counteracting agencies.
From Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by W. (William) Stebbing
The derivative law in this case depends not solely on laws, but on a collocation; and collocations cannot be reduced to any law.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by John Stuart Mill
The rise of knowledge is thus only parallel to certain objective collocations of things which somehow have the special fitness that they and they alone are perceived at that particular moment.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
