Collection /(?)/

Col·lec·tion

Collection

n.
  1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
  2. That which is collected
  3. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred. [Obs.]
    We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.
  4. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. [Eng.]