collation

Bringing together.

The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.

A collection, a gathering.

The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.

The process of establishing a corrected text of a work by comparing differing manuscripts or editions of it; also used to describe the work resulting from such a process.

The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.

The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.

Any light meal or snack.

Discussion, light meal.

The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.

(Scotland) An heir's right to combine the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.

The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.

Presentation to a benefice.

A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.

[in the plural] The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)

(no longer used) The act of conferring or bestowing.

(no longer used) A conference or consultation.

(no longer used) To partake of a collation, or light meal.