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As a noun, collection means a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
Meanings of collection
14 meaningsnoun
A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered 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.”
Multiple related objects associated as a group.
“He has a superb coin collection.”
musicA set of pitch classes used by a composer.
The activity of collecting.
“Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.”
set theorytopologyanalysisA 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.
lawDebt collection.
UKThe jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
oxonusually in the pluralA set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
The quality of being collected; calm composure.
Several things grouped together or considered as a whole
Similar: aggregation, accumulation, assemblageA publication containing a variety of works
Similar: compendiumThe act of gathering something together
Similar: collecting, assembling, aggregation
Older and rare meanings (1)
obsoleteThe act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).