From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Collocation \Col'lo*ca"tion\, noun [L. collocatio.]
1. The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.
The choice and collocation of words. --Sir W. Jones.
2. (Linguistics) a combination of related words within a sentence that occurs more frequently than would be predicted in a random arrangement of words; a combination of words that occurs with sufficient frequency to be recongizable as a common combination, especially a pair of words that occur adjacent to each other. Also called {stable collocation}. Combinations of words having intervening words between them, such as verb and object pairs, may also be collocations. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a grouping of words in a sentence
2: the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors" [syn: {juxtaposition}, {apposition}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
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