01 n. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
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1.
The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
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2.
That which is collected
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3.
The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.[Obs.]“We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.” — Milton.
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4.
The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.[Eng.]
Syn.
Gathering; assembly; assemblage; group; crowd; congregation; mass; heap; compilation.