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
{f} attach or bind together; link up or connect facts by general depiction or hypothesis that apply to all of them; consider as part of a general rule or principle
make a logical or causal connection; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all"