collection

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   A set of pitch classes used by a composer.

   The "collectional information" one receives is ambiguous since the collection { C, E, F, G, A } occurs in the key of C and in the key of F.

3. 3
   noun

   The activity of collecting.

   Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.

4. 4
   noun

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

   The people here are very good to each other, too. When someone's house burned down, when someone was in the hospital, they took up collections for the people.

5. 5
   noun

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

   We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.

6. 6
   noun

   the act of gathering something together

7. 7
   noun

   request for a sum of money

8. 8
   noun

   a publication containing a variety of works

Etymology

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”). Equivalen to collect + -ion.