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Compilation vs. Collection — What's the Difference?

Compilation vs. Collection — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Compilation and Collection

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Compilation

The action or process of producing something, especially a list or book, by assembling information collected from other sources
Great care has been taken in the compilation of this guidebook

Collection

The action or process of collecting someone or something
She left the envelope in the office for collection
Refuse collection
The collection of data

Compilation

A thing, especially a book, record, or broadcast programme, that is put together by assembling previously separate items
A compilation album
There are thirty-three stories in this compilation

Collection

A group of things or people
A rambling collection of houses

Compilation

The act of compiling.
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Collection

College examinations held at the beginning or end of a term, especially at Oxford University.

Compilation

Something, such as a report, anthology, or set of data, that is compiled.

Collection

The act or process of collecting.

Compilation

(uncountable) The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.

Collection

A group of objects or works to be seen, studied, or kept together.

Compilation

(countable) That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.
Susie made Jasmine a compilation CD of some of best songs they'd heard at the festival.

Collection

A line of products produced for one season, as those developed by a designer
Promoted the summer collection in the store window.

Compilation

Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.

Collection

An accumulation; a deposit
A collection of dust on the piano.

Compilation

The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.

Collection

A collecting of money, as in church.

Compilation

That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.
His [Goldsmith's] compilations are widely distinguished from the compilations of ordinary bookmakers.

Collection

The sum so collected.

Compilation

Something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)

Collection

A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.
The asteroid belt consists of a collection of dust, rubble, and minor planets.

Compilation

The act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list);
The job of compiling the inventory took several hours

Collection

Multiple related objects associated as a group.
He has a superb coin collection.

Collection

The activity of collecting.
Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.

Collection

A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.

Collection

A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.

Collection

(law) Debt collection.

Collection

(obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.

Collection

(UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.

Collection

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

Collection

The quality of being collected; calm composure.

Collection

The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.

Collection

That which is collected

Collection

The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.

Collection

The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.

Collection

Several things grouped together or considered as a whole

Collection

A publication containing a variety of works

Collection

Request for a sum of money;
An appeal to raise money for starving children

Collection

The act of gathering something together

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