Definitions
1.NounBringing together.
The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.
A collection, a gathering.
2.NounThe act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
3.NounThe act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.
4.NounA collection, a gathering.
5.NounDiscussion, light meal.
A conference or consultation.
The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)
A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.
Any light meal or snack.
6.NounA conference or consultation.
7.NounThe Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)
8.NounA reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
9.NounThe light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.
10.NounAny light meal or snack.
11.NounThe presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
12.NounThe blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
13.NounAn 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.
14.NounThe act of conferring or bestowing.
15.NounPresentation to a benefice.
16.NounThe specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.
17.NounThe 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.
18.VerbTo partake of a collation, or light meal.