collection
/kəˈlɛkʃən/
A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together; The activity of collecting
- plural
- collections
Meanings
- 1
A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together
You have quite a nice collection.
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- 2
The activity of collecting
- 3
A set of pitch classes used by a composerrare
- 4
A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a setrare
- 5
A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donationsrare
- 6
Debt collectionrare
- 7
The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferredrare
- 8
The jurisdiction of a collector of exciserare
- 9
A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the termrare
- 10
The quality of being collected; calm composurerare