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.
Nearby words of 'collocation'. 1  collisional. 2  collisionally. 3  collocate. collocation. 4  collocational. collocutor. 5  collocutory. All ENGLISH words that begin with  'C'.