We found 3 definitions of ordinations from 2 different sources.
NounPlural: ordinations |
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ordination - the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders; "the rabbi's family was present for his ordination" | ||
ordinance | ||
naming, designation, appointment, assignment the verbal act of naming; "the part he failed was the naming of state capitals" | ||
holy order the sacrament of ordination | ||
laying on of hands laying hands on a person's head to invoke spiritual blessing in Christian ordination | ||
ordination - the status of being ordained to a sacred office | ||
ordination - logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; "we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation" | ||
ordering, order | ||
arrangement the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music | ||
bacteria order an order of bacteria | ||
word order the order of words in a text | ||
genetic code the ordering of nucleotides in DNA molecules that carries the genetic information in living cells | ||
genome the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism; "the human genome contains approximately three billion chemical base pairs" |