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The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.

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  1. n. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
  2. n. That which is collected
  3. n. A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons.
  4. n. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings.
  5. n. That which is obtained in payment of demands.
  6. n. An accumulation of any substance.
  7. n. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
  8. n. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
  9. n. several things grouped together or considered as a whole
  10. n. a publication containing a variety of works
  11. n. request for a sum of money
  12. n. the act of gathering something together