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/kˌɑmpəlˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Compilation n.

The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.

That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents. "His (Goldsmith's) compilations are widely distinguished from the compilations of ordinary bookmakers."

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Etymology of 'Compilation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Compilation" Quotes from Famous Books

... original sources of information. In these, the diversity of their incomplete statements about different countries and epochs has offered many obstacles. In presenting my own deductions and inferences, it is with a desire to remove any impressions as to this volume being a mere compilation. "Facts are the data of all just reasoning, and the elements of all real knowledge. It follows that he is a wise man who possesses the greatest store of facts on a given subject. A book, therefore, which assembles ...

— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho

... rapid travel; for I have a theory that any addition to the great body of print, however insignificant it may be, has a value in proportion to its originality and individuality,—however slight either is,—and very little value if it is a compilation of the observations of others. In this case I know how slight the value is; and I can only hope that as the trip was very entertaining to us, the record of it may not be wholly unentertaining to those ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... control of (1) procedure, (2) interpretation, till end of fourth century B.C. Publication of Fasti and Legis actiones; the college opened to Plebeians. Work of Pontifices in third century: (1) admission of new deities, (2) compilation of annals, (3) collection of religious formulae. General result; formalisation of religion; and secularisation of pontifical ...

— The Religious Experience of the Roman People - From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus • W. Warde Fowler

... croient en general connaitre suffisamment l'Empire Ottoman pour peu qu'ils aient lu l'enorme compilation que le savant M. de Hammer a publiee ... mais en dehors de ce mouvement central il y a la vie interieure de province, dont le tableau tout entier reste ...

— Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family • Andrew Archibald Paton

... old times of journalism, can never make a newspaper successful as a financial speculation, nor give it that circulation on which its influence in a large measure depends. The journal of the present day is a compilation of telegraphic despatches from all parts of the world, and of reports of all matters of local and provincial importance, with one or more columns of concise editorial comment on public topics of general interest: and the success with which this ...

— The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People • John George Bourinot

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