Colligation

Definition:

• (n.) A binding together.
• (n.) That process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse.

Compare colligation with other words:

colligation vs. collocation

colligation vs. intersection

bind vs. colligation

colligate vs. colligation