Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

orchestration

/ˌɔɹkəstɹˈeɪʃən/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.74 in modern English

Syllables: or-ches-tra-tion
IPA: /ˌɔɹkəstɹˈeɪʃən/

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.

Uncountable

noun

A composition that has been orchestrated.

Countable

noun

The control of diverse elements.

Uncountable

noun

The automated arrangement, coordination, and management of computer systems, middleware, and services.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Etymology

From French orchestration. Equivalent to orchestrate + -ion.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: orchestration
Suffix: orchestrate

Usage

Inflected Forms

orchestrations (plural)

Derived Forms

bandstration orchestrational reorchestration

Frequently Paired Words

orchestrator

Synonyms

instrumentation

Rhymes With

information education situation population station association administration operation organization nation location application

Questions

How do you pronounce orchestration?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌɔɹkəstɹˈeɪʃən/.
What does orchestration mean?: The arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.
Where does orchestration come from?: It is traced to French.

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