COLLECTION meaning: Accumulation of items or data

We found 53 dictionaries that define the word collection:

General (29 matching dictionaries)

collection: Merriam-Webster.com
collection, collection: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
collection: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
collection: Collins English Dictionary
collection: Vocabulary.com
Collection, collection: Wordnik
collection: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
collection: Wiktionary
collection: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
collection: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
collection: Infoplease Dictionary
Collection, collection: Dictionary.com
collection: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Collection: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
collection: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
collection: Rhymezone
Collection: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
collection: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
collection: Free Dictionary
collection: Mnemonic Dictionary
collection: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
collection, collection (acquisition): Dictionary/thesaurus
collection: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)

collection: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
collection: Global Glossary
Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)

MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
Collection: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
Real Estate and Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
collection: Legal dictionary
Collection: Financial dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)

I T Glossary (No longer online)
Collection (museum), collection: Encyclopedia
Windows API Guide (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

collection: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

Collection: Easton Bible

Science (3 matching dictionaries)

Collection: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
Archeological Collections Glossary (No longer online)
collection: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

collection: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

Collection: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
collection: Coin Collecting

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
▸ noun:  (music) A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
▸ noun:  The activity of collecting.
▸ noun:  (set theory, topology, mathematical analysis) A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
▸ noun:  A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
▸ noun:  (law) Debt collection.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
▸ noun:  (UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
▸ noun:  (Oxford University, usually in the plural) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
▸ noun:  The quality of being collected; calm composure.

Opposite:

dispersal, distribution, scattering, separation, disbursement

Types:

stamp collection, coin collection, art collection, book collection, antique collection, rock collection, seashell collection, more...

Phrases:

Data collection, tax collection, garbage collection, art collection, Collection development, more...

Adjectives:

private, large, growing, small, extensive, fine, complete, valuable, whole, entire, vast

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