ordination

noun4

1. •
   The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
2. •
   The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
3. •
   the ceremony in which a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni is ordained into the sangha
4. •
   A statistical technique for ordering data from a large number of sites or populations by arranging the data as points in a multidimensional coordinate frame, in which patterns can be discerned; an instance of this.