COORDINATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coordinating mean? 

• COORDINATING (adjective)
  The adjective COORDINATING has 1 sense:

1. serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction

  Familiarity information: COORDINATING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COORDINATING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction

Synonyms:

coordinating; coordinative

Context example:

'and' in 'John and Mary' or in 'John walked and Mary rode' is a coordinating conjunction; and so is 'or' in 'will you go or stay?'

Domain category:

grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))

Antonym:

subordinating (serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause)

 Context examples 

This process is involved in regulating immune cell populations and coordinating systemic responses.

(Immunologic Factor Process, NCI Thesaurus)

This process is involved in regulating active populations of leukocytes and coordinating systemic responses to pathogenic infection.

(Interleukin Signaling Process, NCI Thesaurus)

Improves the lives of the American public by discovering and conducting better ways to diagnose, assess, treat, and cure cancer through stimulating, coordinating, and funding a national program of cancer research.

(Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI Thesaurus)

This process is involved in regulating active populations of specific immune cell types, as well as coordinating systemic responses to pathogenic infection.

(Cytokine Signaling Process, NCI Thesaurus)

The administrative office designated by a study coordinating center to receive expedited adverse event reports from the participating sites and then process, review, and submit those expedited reports to the sponsor.

(Central Office, NCI Thesaurus)

The main symptom is ataxia, which means trouble coordinating movements.

(Friedreich's Ataxia, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Macrophages also present antigen to T helper cells that play a central role in coordinating immune responses.

(Inflammatory Response Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A designated person who is trained and responsible for coordinating adverse event review, tracking, surveillance and reporting activities within a clinical institution or clinical trial.

(Adverse Event Coordinator, NCI Thesaurus)

A professional trained and qualified to provide nutritional services at individual, institutional and community levels in term of assessing nutritional needs and coordinating them with medical ones, developing and implementing nutrition programs, evaluation and reporting their results, as well as to educate people on healthy eating, and diseases prevention and treatment by means of dietary modifications.

(Dietitian, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers acknowledge that they do not know how pollution might be causing cognitive decline, but suggest it might have some impact on white matter in the brain, considering the role it plays in coordinating communications between brain regions.

(Pollution Linked to Significant Decline in Human Cognition, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)