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A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
Multiple related objects associated as a group.
The activity of collecting.
(topology, analysis) A set of sets.
A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
(obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
(UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.

Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
Collections of moisture.
A purulent collection.
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.
Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
He has a superb coin collection.
Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.
We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.

Monikko

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