orchestration

English

Etymology

From French orchestration.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

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.

Translations

arrangement of music for an orchestra

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 配器 (zh) (pèiqì)

• Finnish: orkesterisovitus, soitinnus, orkestraatio (fi), orkestrointi (fi)
• Galician: orquestración (gl) f
• Greek: ενορχήστρωση (el) f (enorchístrosi)
• Kazakh: оркестрге лайықтау (orkestrge laiyqtau)
• Russian: оркестро́вка (ru) f (orkestróvka)
• Spanish: orquestación

composition that has been orchestrated

• Finnish: orkesterisovitus, orkestraatio (fi)
• Galician: orquestración (gl) f

control of diverse elements

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: orkestrointi (fi)
• Galician: orquestración (gl) f
• Greek: ενορχήστρωση (el) f (enorchístrosi)

Further reading

• orchestration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• orchestration (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From orchestre +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.kɛs.tʁa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

orchestration f (plural orchestrations)

1. orchestration

See also

• instrumentation

Further reading

• “orchestration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.