Colocation or collocation may refer to:
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Colocation (business)
Colocation (or co-location) is the act of placing multiple (sometimes related) entities within a single location.
Examples
* In an organization, it refers to placing related roles or groups in a single room, building or campus.
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, the placement of several entities in a single location
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Colocation centre
A colocation center (also spelled co-location, or colo) or "carrier hotel", is a type of data centre where equipment, space, and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers. Colocation facilities provide space, power, cooling, and ...
, a data center where companies can rent equipment, space, and bandwidth for computing services, known as colocation services
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Collocation
In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a series of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. In phraseology, a collocation is a type of compositional phraseme, meaning that it can be understood from the words ...
, in corpus linguistics, a sequence of words that often occur together
** Collocation, a sub-type of
phraseme
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Collocation method In mathematics, a collocation method is a method for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations and integral equations. The idea is to choose a finite-dimensional space of candidate solutions (usually ...
, used in mathematics to solve differential and integral equations
Technology and engineering
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Co-location (satellite) Co-location is the placing of two or more geostationary communications satellites in orbit, in close proximity so that to reception equipment on the ground they 'appear' to occupy a single orbital position. The technique as applied to a group of TV ...
, the placing of two or more geostationary communications satellites in orbit in close proximity
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Collocation (remote sensing) Collocation is a procedure used in remote sensing
to match measurements from two or more different instruments.
This is done for two main reasons:
for validation purposes when comparing measurements of the same variable,
and to relate measurement ...
, matching remote sensing measurements from two or more different instruments
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