Noun

(en noun)

Accumulation.

* 1859 , The Veterinarian , volume XXXII-V, fourth series, page 82:

The cumulation and toleration of medicines.

* 1982 , Journal of the Indian Chemical Society , volume 59, page 1329:

The Cumulation of Methylmercury and Phenylmercury Species on Alga.

* 1997 , Graham Bell, The basics of selection , page 15:

Very improbable structures readily arise through the cumulation of small alterations.

* 2004 , Leslie Kish, Statistical design for research , page 186:

Changes in internal boundaries can also occur more frequently and can complicate cumulations of data for cities [...]

The effect of free trade agreements on the rules of origin in calculating importation tariffs, quotas, etc.

* 2013 , Switzerland Federal Department of Finance, [http://www.ezv.admin.ch/pdf_linker.php?doc=Die_Kumulation_in_den_Freihandelsabkommen&lang=en]:

Cumulation' is a deviation from the principle that goods must be produced entirely in the country of exportation, or have undergone sufficient working or processing there, in order to qualify as originating goods. ' Cumulation makes it possible for goods from a free trade partner to be treated the same as those originating in the country of exportation.

Noun

(en noun)

A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.

*

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.

* (William Whewell)

Collections of moisture.

* Dunglison

A purulent collection .

Multiple related objects associated as a group.

* , chapter=5

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}

The activity of collecting.

(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)

We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.

(UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.

A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.