Col-lĕc'tion, n.

n. [Lat. collectio.]

1. The act of collecting or gathering.
2. That which is gathered or drawn together. “Expanded and open collections of moisture.” Whewell. “A collection of letters purporting to have been written by that Phalaris who governed Agrigentum more than five hundred years before the Christian era.” Macaulay.
3. A contribution; a sum collected for a charitable purpose. “Now concerning the collection for the saints.” 1 Cor. xvi. 1.
4. A deduction from premises; consequence; corollary; conclusion. We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines. Milton.

Syn.—An assembly; assemblage; group; crowd; meeting; mass; heap; compilation; selection.