collection
//kəˈlɛkʃən//
Forms
- Plural
- collections
Definitions
1.A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
- He has a superb coin collection.
- He has a big collection of stamps.
- This year's Summer Collection will include a wide range of evening wear.
2.A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
- Simply put, the realm of available collections in a largely diatonic environment is much smaller than it is in truly atonal one.
- In fact, students are often taught that specific collections, diatonic, octatonic, and whole-tone, etc., typify these composers' compositional language.
- The "collectional information" one receives is ambiguous since the collection { C, E, F, G, A } occurs in the key of C and in the key of F.
3.The activity of collecting.
- Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.
4.A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1233
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
Etymology
From Middle English colleccioun, collection, from Old French collection, from Latin collēctiō, collēctiōnem, from collēctus, from colligō (“collect together”), composed of con- + legō (“bring together, gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).