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FromMiddle Englishcolleccioun,collection, fromOld Frenchcollection, fromLatincollēctiō, collēctiōnem, fromcollēctus, fromcolligō(collect together), composed ofcon- +‎legō(bring together, gather, collect), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*leǵ-(to gather, collect).

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collection (countable anduncountable,pluralcollections)

Museum stores its butterflycollection in special specimen drawers.
  1. Aset ofitems or amount of materialprocured,gathered orpresented together.
    The attic contains a remarkablecollection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.
    The asteroid belt consists of acollection of dust, rubble, and minor planets.
    This year's SummerCollection will include a wide range of evening wear.
    He has a superb coincollection.
    • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster,The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.:Field Museum of Natural History,→ISBN, page vii:
      Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite ofcollections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
    • 1837,William Whewell,History of the Inductive Sciences:
      collections of moisture
    • 1887, Robert Bartholow,A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine:
      a purulentcollection
    • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
      Of all the queercollections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner.[] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
  2. (music) A set ofpitch classes used by a composer.
    • 2005, Neil Minturn,The Last Waltz of The Band, page112:
      The "collectional information" one receives is ambiguous since thecollection { C, E, F, G, A } occurs in the key of C and in the key of F.
    • 2009, Brian Moseley, “Form and Transpositional Combination in George Crumb'sLux Aeterna”, in Bruce Quaglia, Jack Boss, editors,Musical Currents from the Left Coast, page174:
      In fact, students are often taught that specificcollections—diatonic, octatonic, and whole-tone, etc.—typify these composers' compositional language.
    • 2012, Marguerite Boland, John Link,Elliott Carter Studies, page22:
      Simply put, the realm of availablecollections in a largely diatonic environment is much smaller than it is in trulyatonal one.
  3. Theactivity ofcollecting.
    Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.
  4. (set theory, topology, mathematical analysis) Aset of sets;used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
  5. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box fordonations.
    • 1976 February 7, Rose Flower, quoting Jimmy McGrath, “Playland: The Friendliest Place In Town”, inGay Community News, volume 3, number32, page13:
      The people here are very good to each other, too. When someone's house burned down, when someone was in the hospital, they took upcollections for the people.
  6. (law)Debt collection.
  7. (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
  8. (UK) Thejurisdiction of acollector ofexcise.
  9. (Oxford University, usually in theplural) A set ofcollegeexams generally taken at the start of theterm.
  10. The quality of beingcollected;calmcomposure.

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set of items
multiple related objects
activity of collecting
topology, analysis: set of sets
gathering of money for charitable or other purposes
debt collectionseedebt collection
act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts
jurisdiction of a collector of excise
set of college exams
the quality of being collected; calm composure
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Etymology

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Learned borrowing fromLatincollēctiō. Cf. also Old Frenchquieuçon, which may be inherited from the same source, and the moderncueillaison, which was probably formed analogically.

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Noun

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collection f (pluralcollections)

  1. collection

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