Collection vs Convention - What's the difference?
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A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
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* (William Whewell)
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Multiple related objects associated as a group.
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(topology, analysis) A set of sets.
A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
(obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
* (John Milton)
(UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
A meeting or gathering.
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A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates
The convening of a formal meeting
A formal agreement, contract or pact
(international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
A generally accepted principle, method or behaviour.
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Collection is a related term of convention.
As nouns the difference between collection and convention
is that collection is a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together while convention is a meeting or gathering.collection
English
Noun
(en noun)- Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections , rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
- Collections of moisture.
- A purulent collection .
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- We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.
Derived terms
* collection agency * collection plate * minicollection * take up a collectionconvention
English
(wikipedia convention)Noun
(en noun)- The convention was held in Geneva.
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- ''The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution
- ''The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations
- In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
(40) VP → V AP (PP)
(Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention , taken to be
optional.)
- ''Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention , not binding formal protocol
- The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.