Kolokuje

Kolokuje is the third-person singular present tense form of the Polish verb kolokować, meaning to colocate or to place together in the same location. The term is used in both technical and linguistic contexts, and its noun form kolokacja denotes the act or result of placing items together or, in linguistics, a habitual word combination.

In information technology and data management, kolokować describes placing hardware or services in a shared facility, such as a data center. Colocation involves housing customers’ servers and related equipment in the same physical space while maintaining separate ownership, power, and network access. In this sense, kolokacja refers to the practice or arrangement of colocated resources.

In linguistics and lexicography, kolokacja refers to a stable or conventional combination of words that co-occur more frequently than by chance. Kolokacjach describes how certain words tend to appear together, forming familiar phrases or collocations. Researchers analyze kolokacje to understand natural language usage, semantics, and stylistic patterns. The verb kolokować can be used to describe the act of creating or recognizing such combinations.

Etymologyically, the Polish term kolokować is loaned from English colocation or collocation and adapted to Polish morphology, with kolokacja as the corresponding noun. The word is more common in technical or scholarly writing than in everyday speech.

See also: kolokacja, kolokować, colocation, collocation.