collection
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noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.
The asteroid belt consists of a collection of dust, rubble, and minor planets.
This year's Summer Collection will include a wide range of evening wear.
He has a big collection of stamps.
He has a superb coin collection.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)(music) A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)The activity of collecting.
Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)(set theory, topology, mathematical analysis) A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
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(countable, uncountable)A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
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(countable, uncountable)(law) Debt collection.
- 7.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
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(UK, countable, uncountable)The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
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(countable, plural normally, uncountable)(Oxford University, usually in the plural) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
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(countable, uncountable)The quality of being collected; calm composure.
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ine-pro From Middle English colleccioun, collection, from Old French collection, from Latin collēctiō, collēctiōnem, from collēctus, from colligō (collect together), composed of con- + legō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (to gather, collect). Equivalent to collect + -ion.