Or`gan*i*za"tion (?), n. [Cf. F.
organisation.]
1. The act of organizing; the act of
arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the
organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The
first organization of the general government."
Pickering.
2. The state of being organized; also, the
relations included in such a state or condition.
What is organization but the connection of
parts in and for a whole, so that each part is, at once, end and
means?
Coleridge.
3. That which is organized; an organized
existence; an organism; specif. (Biol.), an
arrangement of parts for the performance of the functions necessary
to life.
The cell may be regarded as the most simple, the most
common, and the earliest form of organization.
McKendrick.