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.
For the corpus linguistics notion, see collocation. A colocation centre (also spelled co-location, or colo) is a type of data centre where equipment, space, and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers.They are sometimes also referred to as  carrier hotels ..Multi-tenant [colocation] providers sell to a wide range of customers, from Fortune 1000 enterprises to small-and medium-sized organizations.â âTypically the facility provides power and cooling to the space, but the IT equipment is owned by the customer.