From the geology course I took in 1975: Minerals are naturally occurring crystals of compound. Snow is a mineral, but volcanic glass is not. Rocks are amalgams of minerals and non-minerals.
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.
Colocation or collocation may refer to: Colocation (business), the placement of several entities in a single location. Colocation centre, computing services provided to many organisations by a third-party. Collocation, in corpus linguistics, a sequence of words that often occur together Collocation, a sub-type of phraseme. Collocation method, used in mathematics to solve differential and integral equations.