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

(music) A set of pitch classes used by a composer.

The activity of collecting.

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

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

(law) Debt collection.

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

(UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.

(in the plural) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.

The quality of being collected; calm composure.