• IPA: /kəˈlɛkʃən/

collection

1. A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:

     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.
2. Multiple related objects associated as a group.

   He has a superb coin collection.

3. The activity of collecting.

   Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.

4. (topology, analysis) A set of sets.
5. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
6. (law) Debt collection.
7. (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
   • 1644, John Milton, The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce:

     We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.

8. (UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
9. (in the plural, UK, Oxford University) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
10. The quality of being collected; calm composure.

• French: collection
• German: Sammlung, Kollektion
• Italian: raccolta, collezione
• Portuguese: coleção
• Russian: колле́кция
• Spanish: colección

• French: collection
• German: Sammlung, Kollektion, Menge
• Italian: raccolta, collezione
• Portuguese: coleção
• Spanish: colección, conjunto

• French: ramassage
• German: Sammeln, Sammlung, Abholung, Einsammlung
• Italian: raccolta
• Portuguese: coleta, recolha, recolhimento
• Spanish: recogida, recolección

• German: Sammelung
• Spanish: colecta, recaudación