English Dictionary

collection

IPA（発音記号）

/kəˈlɛkʃən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 廃用 イギリス英語 通例複数形

A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together. / Multiple related objects associated as a group. / The activity of collecting. / (topology, mathematical analysis) A set of sets.

日本語の意味

集めた品物や素材の集合 / 関連する複数の物のひとまとまり / 収集する行為 / (数学) 集合の集合

The museum acquired a rare collection of maps from the 18th century to preserve local history.

博物館は地域の歴史を保存するために、18世紀の希少な地図の収集品を取得した。

意味（1）

A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.

Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.

意味（2）

Multiple related objects associated as a group.

Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

意味（3）

The activity of collecting.

Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.

意味（4）

(topology, mathematical analysis) A set of sets.

意味（5）

A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.

意味（6）

(law) Debt collection.

意味（7）

(obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.

We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.

意味（8）

(UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.

意味（9）

(Oxford University, usually in the plural) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.

意味（10）

The quality of being collected; calm composure.

collections （ plural ）