co·or·di·nate
kō-ˈȯrd-nət 
-ˈȯr-də-nət,
-də-ˌnāt
1
a
: equal in rank, quality, or significance
keeping the branches of government coordinate
b
: being of equal rank in a sentence
coordinate clauses
2
: relating to or marked by coordination
3
a
: being a university that awards degrees to men and women taught usually by the same faculty but attending separate classes often on separate campuses
b
: being one of the colleges and especially the women's branch of a coordinate university
4
: of, relating to, or being a system of indexing by two or more terms so that documents may be retrieved through the intersection of index terms
coordinately
adverb
coordinateness
noun
co·or·di·nate
kō-ˈȯr-də-ˌnāt
coordinated; coordinating
1
: to put in the same order or rank
2
: to bring into a common action, movement, or condition : harmonize
coordinate schedules
She'll be coordinating the relief effort.
3
: to attach so as to form a coordination complex
1
: to be or become equal in rank, quality, or significance especially so as to act or work together well
2
: to combine by means of a coordinate bond
co·or·di·nate
kō-ˈȯrd-nət
-ˈȯr-də-nət,
-də-ˌnāt
1
a
: any of a set of numbers used in specifying the location of a point on a line, on a surface, or in space
latitude and longitude coordinates
b
: any one of a set of variables used in specifying the state of a substance or the motion of a particle or momentum
2
: one who is of equal rank, authority, or importance with another
3
coordinates plural
: articles (as of clothing) designed to be used together and to attain their effect through pleasing contrast (as of color, material, or texture)
Synonyms
Examples of coordinate in a Sentence
Verb
She'll be coordinating the relief effort.
You'll have to coordinate with the sales department.
National and international relief efforts must coordinate if the operation is to be successful.
We need to coordinate our schedules.
Dancers need to coordinate their moves.
Since his illness, he has had trouble coordinating his arms and legs.
Noun
We calculated its exact coordinates.
the Nobel Memorial Award for Economic Science is universally regarded as the coordinate of the original Nobel Prizes for peace, literature, medicine, physics, and chemistry
Recent Examples on the Web
Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
There exist a number of particularly useful coordinate choices for this space.
—Mark Trodden, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2012
Arbery’s plays and his characters roam this coordinate plane in all directions, occupying many quadrants at once.
—Chloé Cooper Jones, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
The hexagons, which covered the entire enclosure, appeared to form the individual units of a grid—similar to the squares formed by the coordinate lines on a road map.
—May-Britt Moser, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2016
The initial rollout of coronavirus vaccines in the US has been slow and messy, as states have tried coordinate plans for appointments with little federal guidance.
—Kim Lyons, The Verge, 25 Jan. 2021
The x-axis and y-axis show the two dimensions of a coordinate plane.
—Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2022
Cedarburg City Administrator Mikko Hilvo said his Ozaukee County community has been hearing from citizens about the city's coordinate address system, too.
—Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2022
Doyle, who formerly served as the coordinate mayor of Cork County, Ireland, was due to visit for 2020's parade before its last-minute cancellation.
—Lauren Wethington, Detroit Free Press, 11 Mar. 2022
Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2024
The photo showed the twins perfectly coordinated in matching blazers and similar colored tops.
—Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 22 Apr. 2024
In the medium term, if Israel hopes to rely on its Arab partners in Gaza to provide security, coordinate and fund reconstruction, and equip a new generation of Palestinian leaders with the skills needed to govern, Israel must tangibly commit to Palestinian self-rule and eventual statehood.
—TIME, 22 Apr. 2024
Outside, the Peoria police and fire departments began coordinating to get a handle on the situation.
—Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2024
By the 1980s additional research on brain development helped explain why young children are so vulnerable to this kind of lasting effect, says Anu Narayan, a senior adviser at UNICEF who coordinates its response to food emergencies affecting children.
—Nurith Aizenman, NPR, 19 Apr. 2024
The Post’s review also found that the ambulance was discovered along a route provided by COGAT, an arm of the Israeli Defense Ministry that generally coordinates safe passage for medical vehicles with the IDF.
—Cate Brown, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
Ignat/Bauer-Griffin The second round involved a cream shirt coordinated with a Birkin by Hermès; this time, Jennifer Lopez still showed off her abs without really showing them by wearing her turtleneck tight and tucked inside the waistband of her ultra-wide jeans.
—Ana Serrano, Glamour, 16 Apr. 2024
Endorsed candidates can raise additional funds that are funneled through the party and can coordinate with the party on how that money is spent, such as to pay for mailers and other promotional materials or even directly transferred back into their campaign.
—Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2024
Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
On the humanitarian side, the process is run chiefly by a dedicated unit of the United Nations, through which U.N. agencies and other organizations submit the coordinates of humanitarian sites such as offices, clinics, warehouses and guesthouses.
—Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
While international organizations like the WCK have deconfliction arrangements and share the coordinates of their movements with the Israeli military, Mr. Abu Sultan, and many humanitarian workers like him, use public transportation every day.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2024
Israel said the coordinates never filtered down to the drone operators who fired the missiles.
—Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
Three months later, the Israeli military has provided no explanation for its targeting of the house, coordinates of which had been shared with Israeli authorities through the U.N.’s deconfliction process.
—Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 3 Apr. 2024
According to DeepMind, the suggestions made by the model were rated as useful by Liverpool coaches twice as often as current techniques, which are based only on the physical coordinates of the players and don’t take into account their movement or physical attributes.
—Amit Katwala, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
The coordinates that Near Intelligence collected and left exposed online pinpoint locations to within a few centimeters of space.
—Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
The coordinates point to mansions in gated communities in Michigan and Florida; homes in Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts; a nightclub in Miami; and the sidewalk across the street from Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
—Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
Adjective
The map was an attempt at a compromise between distorting the areas of continents and the angles of coordinate line.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
There exist a number of particularly useful coordinate choices for this space.
—Mark Trodden, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2012
Arbery’s plays and his characters roam this coordinate plane in all directions, occupying many quadrants at once.
—Chloé Cooper Jones, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
The hexagons, which covered the entire enclosure, appeared to form the individual units of a grid—similar to the squares formed by the coordinate lines on a road map.
—May-Britt Moser, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2016
The initial rollout of coronavirus vaccines in the US has been slow and messy, as states have tried coordinate plans for appointments with little federal guidance.
—Kim Lyons, The Verge, 25 Jan. 2021
The x-axis and y-axis show the two dimensions of a coordinate plane.
—Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2022
Cedarburg City Administrator Mikko Hilvo said his Ozaukee County community has been hearing from citizens about the city's coordinate address system, too.
—Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2022
Doyle, who formerly served as the coordinate mayor of Cork County, Ireland, was due to visit for 2020's parade before its last-minute cancellation.
—Lauren Wethington, Detroit Free Press, 11 Mar. 2022
Verb
In addition to San Pablo, tenant groups led by the influential Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment are also coordinating signature gathering pushes in Redwood City, Pittsburg and Larkspur.
—Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2024
The photo showed the twins perfectly coordinated in matching blazers and similar colored tops.
—Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 22 Apr. 2024
In the medium term, if Israel hopes to rely on its Arab partners in Gaza to provide security, coordinate and fund reconstruction, and equip a new generation of Palestinian leaders with the skills needed to govern, Israel must tangibly commit to Palestinian self-rule and eventual statehood.
—TIME, 22 Apr. 2024
Outside, the Peoria police and fire departments began coordinating to get a handle on the situation.
—Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2024
By the 1980s additional research on brain development helped explain why young children are so vulnerable to this kind of lasting effect, says Anu Narayan, a senior adviser at UNICEF who coordinates its response to food emergencies affecting children.
—Nurith Aizenman, NPR, 19 Apr. 2024
The Post’s review also found that the ambulance was discovered along a route provided by COGAT, an arm of the Israeli Defense Ministry that generally coordinates safe passage for medical vehicles with the IDF.
—Cate Brown, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
Ignat/Bauer-Griffin The second round involved a cream shirt coordinated with a Birkin by Hermès; this time, Jennifer Lopez still showed off her abs without really showing them by wearing her turtleneck tight and tucked inside the waistband of her ultra-wide jeans.
—Ana Serrano, Glamour, 16 Apr. 2024
Endorsed candidates can raise additional funds that are funneled through the party and can coordinate with the party on how that money is spent, such as to pay for mailers and other promotional materials or even directly transferred back into their campaign.
—Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2024
Noun
The specific coordinates determined by USGS correspond to a spot along a pond near a dairy farm in the community of Tewksbury.
—Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
On the humanitarian side, the process is run chiefly by a dedicated unit of the United Nations, through which U.N. agencies and other organizations submit the coordinates of humanitarian sites such as offices, clinics, warehouses and guesthouses.
—Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
While international organizations like the WCK have deconfliction arrangements and share the coordinates of their movements with the Israeli military, Mr. Abu Sultan, and many humanitarian workers like him, use public transportation every day.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2024
Israel said the coordinates never filtered down to the drone operators who fired the missiles.
—Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
Three months later, the Israeli military has provided no explanation for its targeting of the house, coordinates of which had been shared with Israeli authorities through the U.N.’s deconfliction process.
—Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 3 Apr. 2024
According to DeepMind, the suggestions made by the model were rated as useful by Liverpool coaches twice as often as current techniques, which are based only on the physical coordinates of the players and don’t take into account their movement or physical attributes.
—Amit Katwala, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
The coordinates that Near Intelligence collected and left exposed online pinpoint locations to within a few centimeters of space.
—Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
The coordinates point to mansions in gated communities in Michigan and Florida; homes in Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts; a nightclub in Miami; and the sidewalk across the street from Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
—Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
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coordinate
1 of 3 adjective
co·or·di·nate
kō-ˈȯrd-nət
-ᵊn-ət
1
: equal in rank
2
: being of equal rank in a compound sentence
coordinate clauses
coordinately
adverb
coordinate
2 of 3 verb
co·or·di·nate
kō-ˈȯrd-ᵊn-ˌāt
coordinated; coordinating
1
: to make or become coordinate
2
: to work or cause to work together smoothly
coordinate
3 of 3 noun
co·or·di·nate
kō-ˈȯrd-nət
-ᵊn-ət
1
: one that is coordinate with another
2
: any of a set of numbers used to locate a point on a line or surface or in space
Medical Definition
coordinate
verb
co·or·di·nate
kō-ˈȯrd-ᵊn-ˌāt
coordinated; coordinating
: to bring into a common action, movement, or condition
coordinate muscular movements
: to function together in a concerted way
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