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orchestration

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Etymology edit

From French orchestration.

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orchestration (countable and uncountable, plural orchestrations)

  1. (uncountable, music) The arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.
  2. (countable, music) A composition that has been orchestrated.
  3. (uncountable, by extension) The control of diverse elements.
    • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
      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.
  4. (uncountable, by extension, computing) The automated arrangement, coordination, and management of computer systems, middleware, and services.
    • 2021, Dhanushka Madushan, Cloud Native Applications with Ballerina […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 130:
      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.

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French edit

Etymology edit

From orchestre +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ɔʁ.kɛs.tʁa.sjɔ̃/
  • Audio(file)

Noun edit

orchestration f (plural orchestrations)

  1. orchestration

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