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      collection
      noun
      A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
      The activity of collecting.
      A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
      (law) Debt collection.
      (music) A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
      (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.
      The quality of being collected; calm composure.
      (UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
      (Oxford University, usually in the plural) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
      (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
      Roots
      legolect- · Latin · gather, choose
      Synonyms for collection
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      Words related to collection
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