collation

Pronunciation: /kəˈleɪʃən/

The English word “collation” has 16 meanings listed here.

noun

The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.
The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.
A collection, a gathering.
A conference or consultation.
The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)
A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.
Any light meal or snack.
The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
An heir's right to combine the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
The act of conferring or bestowing.
Presentation to a benefice.
The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.
The process of establishing a corrected text of a work by comparing differing manuscripts or editions of it; also used to describe the work resulting from such a process.

From Middle English collacioun, collation, from Old French collation, from Latin collatiō, from the participle stem of cōnferō (“to bring together”).

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