Collection vs System - What's the difference?
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A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
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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.
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(UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members.
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# (label) A set of equations involving the same , which are to be solved simultaneously.
# (medicine) The body organs that contribute to a vegetative function.
# (label) A set of staffs that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.
A method or way of organizing or planning.
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# (derogatory) In the system : the mainstream culture, elites, or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as oppressive to the individual.
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As nouns the difference between collection and system
is that collection is a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together while system is a collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members.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 .
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.}}
- 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 collectionsystem
English
(wikipedia system)Noun
(en noun)- As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.