Collectional

Quick meaning: Collectional is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to collecting, gathering, or grouping items together.

Meaning

Of or pertaining to collecting, gathering, or grouping items together.

More Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to a collection (set of items gathered together or a set of related items) or collections.
2. (music) Pertaining to a collection (set of pitch classes).
3. (logic) Pertaining to all elements of a collection simultaneously, rather than to the individual elements of the collection or to the collection as a whole.

Example Sentences

- handling the information about collectional materials for the scientific research centres in the country and abroad,

In the stage of collectional economy man appropriates nature's gifts. This has been called the hunting and fishing stage.

In the collectional approach numbers are described as collections of standard "sizes" or "values" (ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.).

The primary notational function of the oval is to group propositions together. That is, it is a collectional sign like parantheses are in a non-diagrammatic syntax.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include collational, collectivist, recollective, collectivistic, accumulational, collocative.

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