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How to pronounce “collocation”

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Pronunciation guide for collocation

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of collocation with real speech in context.
Available examples: 2 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Sacred EconomicsPhysics, you're a collocation of particles interacting according to deterministic forces.
Definition summary: (uncountable) The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.

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Sacred Economics

Physics, you're a collocation of particles interacting according to deterministic forces.

[Noun]
(uncountable) The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.
(countable) Such a specific grouping.
(linguistics, translation studies) A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance (i.e., the statistically significant placement of particular words in a language), often representing an established name for, or idiomatic way of conveying, a particular semantic concept.
(mathematics) A method of finding an approximate solution of an ordinary differential equation
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{\textstyle y(x)=y_{0}(x)+\sum _{l=0}^{q}\alpha _{l}y_{l}(x)}
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vanish at prescribed points; the expansion with the coefficients thus found is the sought approximation.
(computing) A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, at a minimum of cost and complexity.