orchestration
orchestration noun: the arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.
Noun
orchestration (countable and uncountable, plural orchestrations)
- The arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.
- A composition that has been orchestrated.
- The control of diverse elements.
- It’s “The Most Dangerous Game” by way of The Running Man and Battle Royale, with touches of Survivor and the mass-scale orchestration of The Truman Show.2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club
- The automated arrangement, coordination, and management of computer systems, middleware, and services.
- Microservices applications can be formed with thousand of containers. We need a proper container orchestration framework to handle all of these containers. Let's discuss Kubernetes, which is the most popular container orchestration system, in the next section.2021, Dhanushka Madushan, Cloud Native Applications with Ballerina […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 130
Examples of orchestration in a sentence
- His highly subtle orchestration elevates woodwinds, more often scored soloistically than sectionally.
- How about all of those guys, dolls, dancers, fancy orchestration, and special lyrics?
- A dynasty is nothing but the successful orchestration of treachery.
Forms of orchestration
| plural | orchestrations |
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Origin of orchestration
From French orchestration. Equivalent to orchestrate + -ion.
Words formed from orchestration
Words that rhyme with orchestration
- station
- collation
- accommodation
- presentation
- derivation
- information
- modulation
- translation
- application
- fixation
- generation
- orientation
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- citation
- combination
- communication
- conjugation
- constellation
- determination
- elevation
- operation
- relation
- reservation
- alternation
- condensation
- conversation
- deviation
- excavation
- foliation
- formation
- foundation
- incarnation
- interpretation
- representation
- retardation
- speculation
- termination
- abbreviation
- adaptation
- articulation
- bifurcation
- concentration
- congregation
- declination
- degradation
- expectation
- extenuation
- gradation
- observation
- population
- preparation
- reconciliation
- rotation
- separation
- situation
- vexation
- vindication
- accumulation
- administration
- aggregation
- appropriation
Questions about orchestration
- What does orchestration mean?
- Orchestration means the arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.
- What part of speech is orchestration?
- Orchestration is a noun.
- What is the plural of orchestration?
- The plural of orchestration is orchestrations.
Words near orchestration in the dictionary
Source and license
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