orchestration

From French orchestration.

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  Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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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• orchestration (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From orchestre +‎ -ation.

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.kɛs.tʁa.sjɔ̃/

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orchestration f (plural orchestrations)

1. orchestration

• instrumentation

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