collection.
A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
Meaning & usage
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.
A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
The activity of collecting.
Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.
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.
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English colleccioun, collection, from Old French collection, from Latin collēctiō, collēctiōnem, from collēctus, from colligō (“collect together”), composed of con- + legō (“bring together, gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”). Equivalent to collect + -ion.
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