COLLECTION

collection, collecting, assembling, aggregation

(noun) the act of gathering something together

solicitation, appeal, collection, ingathering

(noun) request for a sum of money; “an appeal to raise money for starving children”

collection, compendium

(noun) a publication containing a variety of works

collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage

(noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

collection (countable and uncountable, plural collections)

A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.

Multiple related objects associated as a group.

The activity of collecting.

(topology, analysis) A set of sets.

A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.

(law) Debt collection.

(obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.

(UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.

(in the plural, UK, Oxford University) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.

The quality of being collected; calm composure.

Source: Wiktionary

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Col*lec"tion, n. Etym: [L. collectio: cf. F. collection.]

1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.

2. That which is collected; as: (a) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters." Macaulay. (b) A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings. "The collection for the saints." 1 Cor. xvi. 1 (c) (Usually in pl.) That which is obtained in payment of demands. (d) An accumulation of any substance. "Collections of moisture." Whewell. "A purulent collection." Dunglison.

3. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred. [Obs.] We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines. Milton.

4. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. [Eng.]

Syn.

– Gathering; assembly; assemblage; group; crowd; congregation; mass; heap; compilation.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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