Noun

(en noun)

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

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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.

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, 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.

Noun

(uncountable) The action of the verb to meet .

A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.

We need to have a meeting about that soon.

The people at such a gathering, as a collective.

What has the meeting decided.

An encounter between people, even accidental.

They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.

A place or instance of junction or intersection.

Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.

A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.

*1939 , (John Steinbeck), (The Grapes of Wrath) , p. 20:

*:You use ta give a good meetin' . I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.