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See also: coordinate and co-ordinate

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Verb

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coördinate (third-person singular simple present coördinates, present participle coördinating, simple past and past participle coördinated)

  1. Rare spelling of coordinate.
    • 2010 September 27, Malcolm Gladwell, “Small Change”, in The New Yorker[1]:
      With Facebook and Twitter and the like, the traditional relationship between political authority and popular will has been upended, making it easier for the powerless to collaborate, coördinate, and give voice to their concerns.

Noun

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coördinate (plural coördinates)

  1. Rare spelling of coordinate.

Adjective

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coördinate (comparative more coördinate, superlative most coördinate)

  1. Rare spelling of coordinate.
    • 1921, Edward Sapir, Language[2]:
      The radical element A (“to cut up”), before entering into combination with the coördinate element B (“to sit”), is itself compounded with two nominal elements or element-groups—an instrumentally used stem (F) (“knife”), which may be freely used as the radical element of noun forms but cannot be employed as an absolute noun in its given form, and an objectively used group—(E) + C + d (“black cow or bull”).

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See main entry, coordinate.

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