# Collection

Collection or Collections may refer to:
* Cash collection, the function of an accounts receivable department
* Collection (church), money donated by the congregation during a church service
* Collection agency, agency to collect cash
* Collections management (museum)
** Collection (museum), objects in a particular field forms the core basis for the museum
** Fonds in archives
** Private collection, sometimes just called "collection"
* Collection (Oxford colleges), a beginning-of-term exam or Principal's Collections
* Collection (horse), a horse carrying more weight on his hindquarters than his forehand
* Collection (racehorse), an Irish-bred, Hong Kong–based Thoroughbred racehorse
* Collection (publishing), a gathering of books under the same title at the same publisher
* Scientific collection, any systematic collection of objects for scientific study
Collection may also refer to:

## Computing

* Collection (abstract data type), the abstract concept of collections in computer science
* Collection (linking), the act of linkage editing in computing
* Garbage collection (computing), automatic memory management method

## Mathematics

* Set (mathematics)
* Class (set theory)
* Family of sets
* Indexed family
* Multiset
* Parametric family

## Albums
### Collection

* Collection (Soccer Mommy album), 2017
* Collection (2NE1 album), 2012
* Collection (Agnes album), 2013
* Collection (Arvingarna album), 2002
* Collection (Jason Becker album), 2008
* Collection (Tracy Chapman album), 2001
* Collection (The Charlatans album)
* Collection (Dave Grusin album), 1989
* Collection (The Jam album)
* Collection (Wynonna Judd album)
* Collection (Magnus Uggla album), 1985
* Collection (Men Without Hats album), 1996
* Collection (MFÖ album), 2003
* Collection (Mike Oldfield album), 2002
* Collection (Praxis album), 1998
* Collection (The Rankin Family album), 1996
* Collection (Lee Ritenour album), 1991
* Collection (Joe Sample album), 1991
* Collection (Spyro Gyra album), 1991
* Collection (The Stranglers album), 1998
* Collection (Suicidal Tendencies album), 1993
* Collection (Thee Michelle Gun Elephant album), 2001
* Collection (The Warratahs album), 2003
* Collection: The Shrapnel Years (Greg Howe album), 2006
* Collection: The Shrapnel Years (Tony MacAlpine album), 2006
* Collection: The Shrapnel Years (Vinnie Moore album), 2006
* Collection I, a 1986 compilation album of songs by the Misfits
* Collection II, a 1995 companion album to the Misfits' Collection I

### Collections

* Collections (Alexia album)
* Collections (Rick Astley album), 2006
* Collections (Cypress Hill album)
* Collections (Terence Trent D'Arby album), 2006
* Collections (Delphic album), 2013
* Collections (Amanda Marshall album), 2006
* Collections (Charlie Major album), 2006
* Collections (Red Norvo, Art Pepper, Joe Morello and Gerry Wiggins album), 1957
* Collections (Yanni album), 2008
* Collections (The Young Rascals album), 1967

## Other uses

* Collection (film), a 2021 film starring Alex Petttyfer
* Collection #1, a database of sets of email addresses and passwords
* Collections care, to prevent or delay the deterioration of cultural heritage
* Collection class, in object-oriented programming
* Generated collection, a musical scale formed by repeatedly adding a constant interval around the chromatic circle