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.
1 Colocation (business) , the placement of several entities in a single location. 2  Colocation centre, computing services provided to many organisations by a third-party.3  Collocation, in corpus linguistics, a sequence of words that often occur together. Colocation (business) , the placement of several entities in a single location. 2  Colocation centre, computing services provided to many organisations by a third-party.