Dictionary
collection
Meaning
- A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
- A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
- The activity of collecting.
- A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
- A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
- Debt collection.
- (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
- The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
- A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
- The quality of being collected; calm composure.
Hyphenated as
col‧lec‧tion
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kəˈlɛkʃən/
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