Ionic bonding. 1  A cation is a positively charged ion. It is formed when an atom of neutral charge loses one or more electrons. 2  An anion is a negatively charged ion. It is formed when an atom of neutral charge gains one or more electrons.
Obfuscation is the practice of making something difficult to understand. Programming code is often obfuscated to protect intellectual property and prevent an attacker from reverse engineering a proprietary software program.
In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. In phraseology, collocation is a sub-type of phraseme. An example of a phraseological collocation, as propounded by Michael Halliday, is the expression strong tea.