collation

Plural: collations

Noun

• a light informal meal
• assembling in proper numerical or logical sequence
• careful examination and comparison to note points of disagreement
• Bringing together.
• The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.
• Bringing together.
• The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.
• Bringing together.
• A collection, a gathering.
• Discussion, light meal.
• A conference or consultation.
• Discussion, light meal.
• The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)
• Discussion, light meal.
• A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
• Discussion, light meal.
• The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.
• Discussion, light meal.
• Any light meal or snack.
• The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
• The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
• 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 act of conferring or bestowing.
• Presentation to a benefice.
• The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.
• 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.

Verb

• To partake of a collation, or light meal.

Synonyms

bite, snack, hotchpot

Related Words

co-locating, co-location, collocation