Collation

Quick meaning: Collation is a noun meaning Bringing together.

Meaning

Bringing together.

More Meanings

1. Discussion, light meal.
2. (ecclesiastical) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
3. (civil law, inheritance) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
4. (ecclesiastical) Presentation to a benefice.
5. (computing, databases) The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.
6. (civil law, inheritance, Scotland) 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.
7. (obsolete) The act of conferring or bestowing.

Example Sentences

I […] collationed in Spring Garden.

Not by the collation of the king […] but by the people.

Word Forms

• collations
• collationing
• collationed

Synonyms for collation

Depending on context, synonyms include hotchpot, bite, nosh.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bite, nosh, comparison, matching, compare, series.

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