COLLATION

Collation

Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order. Many systems of collation are based on numerical order or alphabetical order, or extensions and combinations thereof. Collation is a fundamental element of most office filing systems, library catalogs and reference books.

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collation

Noun

  1. Bringing together.
    1. The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.
    2. The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.
    3. A collection, a gathering.
      1. Discussion, light meal.
    4. A conference or consultation.
    5. The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by , an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)
      1. A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
      2. The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.
    6. Any light meal or snack.
      1. The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
  2. An heir's right to combine the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
  3. The act of conferring or bestowing.

Verb

  1. To partake of a collation, or light meal.


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