The act of curating, of organizing and maintaining a collection of artworks or artifacts. / (archaic) The act of curing or healing. / (databases) The manual updating of information in a database.

plural of curation

Relating to curation.

simple past tense and past participle of curate

present participle of curate

Produced by curatorial process; reviewed by a curator

A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.

(transitive) To act as a curator for. / (by extension, transitive) To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages. / (intransitive) To work or act as a curator.

(inorganic chemistry) An oxyanion of curium; any salt containing such an anion.

An assistant rector or vicar. / A parish priest. / (Ireland) An assistant barman.