Definition of Collation. Meaning of Collation. Synonyms of Collation

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Definition of Collation

Collation
Collation Col*la"tion, n. [OE. collacioun speech, conference, reflection, OF. collacion, F. collation, fr. L. collatio a bringing together, comparing, fr. collatum (used as the supine of conferre); col- + latium (used as the supine of ferre to bear), for tlatum. See Tolerate, v. t.] 1. The act of collating or comparing; a comparison of one copy er thing (as of a book, or manuscript) with another of a like kind; comparison, in general. --Pope. 2. (Print.) The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding. 3. The act of conferring or bestowing. [Obs.] Not by the collation of the king . . . but by the people. --Bacon. 4. A conference. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 5. (Eccl. Law) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift. 6. (Law) (a) The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity. (b) The report of the act made by the proper officers. 7. (Scots Law) The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred. Note: This also obtains in the civil law, and is found in the code of Louisiana. --Bouvier. 8. (Eccles.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries. 9. A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; -- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries. A collation of wine and sweetmeats. --Whiston. Collation of seals (Old Law), a method of ascertaining the genuineness of a seal by comparing it with another known to be genuine. --Bouvier.
Collation
Collation Col*la"tion, v. i. To partake of a collation. [Obs.] May 20, 1658, I . . . collationed in Spring Garden. --Evelyn.

Meaning of Collation from wikipedia

- Collation is the ****embly of written information into a standard order. Many systems of collation are based on numerical order or alphabetical order,...
- The term collation refers to one or two light meals allowed on days of fasting, especially in Western Christianity. Its purpose is to allow a believer...
- The Unicode collation algorithm (UCA) is an algorithm defined in Unicode Technical Report #10, which is a customizable method to produce binary keys from...
- Look up collation or collate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In library, information and computer science, collation is the process of ****embling written...
- Romans. Several Latin-script alphabets exist, which differ in graphemes, collation and phonetic values from the classical Latin alphabet. The Latin script...
- Chinese character order, or Chinese character indexing, Chinese character collation and Chinese character sorting (simplified Chinese: 汉字排序; traditional Chinese:...
- the bishop to exercise the spiritual responsibilities (institution or collation - see below), the second puts him in possession of the "temporalities"...
- the conventional ordering of an alphabet. It is one of the methods of collation. In mathematics, a lexicographical order is the generalization of the...
- Notation: U+1D200–U+1D24F (70 characters) The following is a Unicode collation algorithm list of Gr**** characters and those Gr****-derived characters...
- The Cardinals' Collation (Portuguese: A Ceia dos Cardeais) is one-act play by Portuguese playwright Júlio Dantas, premiered on 24 March 1902. Originally...