To bind together; to unite or connect things into a whole, especially to organize diverse facts or phenomena under a unified principle.
From Latin 'colligatus,' past participle of 'colligare' (to bind together), from 'col-' (together) + 'ligare' (to bind or tie).
Scientists use colligating principles constantly—when they find a universal law that explains many different observations, they're colligating disparate facts into one elegant theory, like Newton colligating gravity!
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