Noun

(en noun)

A collection of varying but related items.

This box has an assortment of chocolates, there's a picture on the cover so you know which is which.

Noun

(wikipedia album) (en-noun)

A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)

, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album , now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}

A jacket for a phonograph record; an album cover.

A phonograph record.

* 1965 , (American Philological Association), (Press of (Case Western Reserve University)), volume 96, page 364

This mixture was to be effected either by drawing the juries partly from the senate (of about 300 members), partly from an album'' of 300 ''equites'' (Plut. ''CG'' 5.2, ''Comp.'' 2.1), or by adlecting 600 ''equites'' into the senate and drawing the juries from this new senatorial order (Liv. ''Per. 60).

A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=August 21, author=Jason Heller, work=The Onion AV Club

, title= The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review) , passage=When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land''), ''Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. And, despite Hawkins’ inveterate crotch-grabbing, there was never that much meat there to begin with. }}