Colligation

noun

1. In psychology, a form of mental connection or association in which the constituent elements, after combination, are as distinct as (or even more distinct than) they were or would be in isolation.
2. A binding or twisting together.
3. In logic, the binding together of facts by means of a general description or hypothesis which applies to them all.
4. A binding together.
5. That process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse.