collection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlɛkʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: collections
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.
Senses: examples: text: The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.
text: The asteroid belt consists of a collection of dust, rubble, and minor planets.
text: This year's Summer Collection will include a wide range of evening wear.
text: He has a big collection of stamps.
text: He has a superb coin collection.
text: Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
text: collections of moisture
ref: 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences:
text: a purulent collection
ref: 1887, Robert Bartholow, A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine:
text: Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2005, Neil Minturn, The Last Waltz of The Band, page 112:
text: In fact, students are often taught that specific collections—diatonic, octatonic, and whole-tone, etc.—typify these composers' compositional language.
ref: 2009, Brian Moseley, “Form and Transpositional Combination in George Crumb's Lux Aeterna”, in Bruce Quaglia, Jack Boss, editors, Musical Currents from the Left Coast, page 174:
text: Simply put, the realm of available collections in a largely diatonic environment is much smaller than it is in truly atonal one.
ref: 2012, Marguerite Boland, John Link, Elliott Carter Studies, page 22:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
examples: text: Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.
glosses: The activity of collecting.
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
set-theory
topology
glosses: A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1976 February 7, Rose Flower, quoting Jimmy McGrath, “Playland: The Friendliest Place In Town”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 13:
glosses: A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
topics: law
glosses: Debt collection.
examples: text: We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
glosses: The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
glosses: The quality of being collected; calm composure.
Derived terms: biocollection
capped collection
collection agency
collectional
collection box
collectioner
collectionitis
collection-plate
collection plate
collection procedure
collection society
cryocollection
data collection
e-collection
fog collection
garbage collection
grievance collection
injustice collection
megacollection
microcollection
minicollection
money collection
multicollection
noncollection
overcollection
precollection
recollection
selective collection
stamp collection
subcollection
take up a collection
tax collection
type collection
undercollection
wound collection