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collation Definition

col·la·tion (kō lā′s̸hən, kä-, kə-)

noun

  1. the act, process, or result of collating
  2. a conference or gathering, as of monks at the close of the day to listen to a reading from a religious book and to discuss it
  3. a light meal: originally such a meal was served in a monastery during the collation (sense )
  4. Library Science the physical description of a book, including the trim size, number of pages and illustrations, etc.

Etymology: ME collacioun < OFr collacion, discourse < L collatio: see collate

collation Synonyms

collation

n.

resemblance, examination, relation; see comparison 2, relationship.

collation Law Definition

n

The addition to the estate of an intestate of the value of the advancements made by the intestate to his or her children so that the estate can be divided in accordance with an intestacy statute. See also advancement.

collation Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • datum: How can we judge our strategy without collation of this data?
  • statistic: Many associations of undertakings organize the collation of statistics, which are then sent on to members.
  • material: However, the target may need to be extended when significant search or collation of material is required.
  • information: The MoD refused the request on the grounds that the collation of the information would exceed the cost limit.
  • result: A potential burden of collation of research results for the teacher at the conclusion of the semester.
  • mark: Optionally, the system can also be used to automate the collation of marks and return feedback and/or marks to the student.

Converse of object

  • involve: Valuing them is a huge task involving the collation of a lot of evidence.
  • allow: When applied to Catheter related bloodstream infections the study populations were homogenous enough to allow collation.
  • include: The Oxford definition also includes the collation of existing knowledge.
  • require: This requires collation of all materials on the project, particularly those relating to the ' real planning ' exercise.
  • provide: This is the default setting and provides the fastest collation but will only produce correct results for languages that do not use accents.

Adjective modifier

  • cold: I got a cold collation here to make her sit up.
  • central: Central collation of data and GUI based data presentation in graphical format.

Modifies a noun

  • sequence: This field shows the rules that make up the collation sequence for that language.
  • element: This iterator iterates over a sequence of collation elements that were built from the string.
  • rule: The collation rules of the Collator object which created these keys are applied.
  • order: The data type of the collation order is int.

Noun used with modifier

  • data: SLR Tasks included the following: Data collation & Assessment.
  • datum: The Fife network development plan includes work in four areas: Data collation program for consumer advice queries.
  • information: This report provides useful context and we welcome the call for better information collation.