The present participle of colligate; the ongoing process of binding together or unifying disparate elements into a coherent whole.
From Latin 'colligare' (to bind together) plus the present participle suffix -ing.
In the history of science, the most exciting moments happen when someone is 'colligating' chaos—Darwin colligating variation into evolution, Einstein colligating space and time—these breakthroughs always involve seeing hidden unity!
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