Collection or Collections may refer to: * Cash collection, the function of an accounts receivable department *

Collection (church) The offertory (from Medieval Latin ''offertorium'' and Late Latin ''offerre'') is the part of a Eucharistic service when the bread and wine for use in the service are ceremonially placed on the altar. A collection of alms (offerings) from the co ...

, money donated by the congregation during a church service *

Collection agency Debt collection is the process of pursuing payments of debts owed by individuals or businesses. An organization that specializes in debt collection is known as a collection agency or debt collector. Most collection agencies operate as agents of ...

, agency to collect cash *

Collections management (museum) Collections management involves the development, storage, and preservation of cultural property, as well as objects of contemporary culture (including contemporary art, literature, technology, and documents) in museums, libraries, archives and p ...

Collection (museum) A museum is distinguished by a collection of often unique objects that forms the core of its activities for exhibitions, education, research, etc. This differentiates it from an archive or library, where the contents may be more paper-based, repla ...

, objects in a particular field forms the core basis for the museum **

Fonds In archival science, a fonds is a group of documents that share the same origin and that have occurred naturally as an outgrowth of the daily workings of an agency, individual, or organization. An example of a fonds could be the writings of a poe ...

archive An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or ...

s **

Private collection A private collection is a privately owned collection of works (usually artworks) or valuable items. In a museum or art gallery context, the term signifies that a certain work is not owned by that institution, but is on loan from an individu ...

, sometimes just called "collection" * Collection (Oxford colleges), a beginning-of-term exam or Principal's Collections *

Collection (horse) {{Unreferenced, date=June 2009 Collection occurs when a horse's center of gravity is shifted backwards. Energy is directed in a more horizontal trajectory with less forward movement (limbs generate higher vertical impulses). Biomechanical markers ...

, a horse carrying more weight on his hindquarters than his forehand * Collection (racehorse), an Irish-bred, Hong Kong based Thoroughbred racehorse *

Collection (publishing) In the field of book publishing, a collection or, more precisely, editorial collection (french: collection éditoriale; es, colección editorial; it, collana editoriale; pt, coleção de livros, translation=collection of books), is a set of boo ...

, a gathering of books under the same title at the same publisher *

Scientific collection A scientific collection is a collection of items that are preserved, catalogued, and managed for the purpose of scientific study. Scientific collections dealing specifically with organisms plants, fungi, animals, insects and their remains, may al ...

, any systematic collection of objects for scientific study Collection may also refer to:

Computing

Collection (abstract data type) In computer programming, a collection is a grouping of some variable number of data items (possibly zero) that have some shared significance to the problem being solved and need to be operated upon together in some controlled fashion. Generally, ...

, the abstract concept of collections in computer science * Collection (linking), the act of linkage editing in computing *

Garbage collection (computing) In computer science, garbage collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory management. The ''garbage collector'' attempts to reclaim memory which was allocated by the program, but is no longer referenced; such memory is called '' garbage''. ...

, automatic memory management method

Mathematics

Set (mathematics) A set is the mathematical model for a collection of different things; a set contains '' elements'' or ''members'', which can be mathematical objects of any kind: numbers, symbols, points in space, lines, other geometrical shapes, variables, or ...

* Class (set theory) *

Family of sets In set theory and related branches of mathematics, a collection F of subsets of a given set S is called a family of subsets of S, or a family of sets over S. More generally, a collection of any sets whatsoever is called a family of sets, set fami ...

Indexed family In mathematics, a family, or indexed family, is informally a collection of objects, each associated with an index from some index set. For example, a ''family of real numbers, indexed by the set of integers'' is a collection of real numbers, wher ...

Multiset In mathematics, a multiset (or bag, or mset) is a modification of the concept of a set that, unlike a set, allows for multiple instances for each of its elements. The number of instances given for each element is called the multiplicity of that e ...

Parametric family In mathematics and its applications, a parametric family or a parameterized family is a family of objects (a set of related objects) whose differences depend only on the chosen values for a set of parameters. Common examples are parametrized (fam ...

Albums Peggy

Collection

* ''Collection'' (2NE1 album), 2012 * ''Collection'' (Agnes album), 2013 * ''Collection'' (Arvingarna album), 2002 * ''Collection'' (Jason Becker album), 2008 * ''Collection'' (Tracy Chapman album), 2001 * ''Collection'' (The Charlatans album) * ''Collection'' (Dave Grusin album), 1989 * ''Collection'' (The Jam album) * ''Collection'' (Wynonna Judd album) * ''Collection'' (Magnus Uggla album), 1985 * ''Collection'' (Men Without Hats album), 1996 * ''Collection'' (MFÖ album), 2003 * ''Collection'' (Mike Oldfield album), 2002 * ''Collection'' (Praxis album), 1998 * ''Collection'' (The Rankin Family album), 1996 * ''Collection'' (Lee Ritenour album), 1991 * ''Collection'' (Joe Sample album), 1991 * ''Collection'' (Spyro Gyra album), 1991 * ''Collection'' (The Stranglers album), 1998 * ''Collection'' (Suicidal Tendencies album), 1993 * ''Collection'' (Thee Michelle Gun Elephant album), 2001 * ''Collection'' (The Warratahs album), 2003 * ''Collection: The Shrapnel Years'' (Greg Howe album), 2006 * ''Collection: The Shrapnel Years'' (Tony MacAlpine album), 2006 * ''Collection: The Shrapnel Years'' (Vinnie Moore album), 2006 * '' Collection I'', a 1986 compilation album of songs by the Misfits * ''

Collection II ''Collection II'', also known as ''Misfits II'', a compilation album of songs by the American punk rock band Misfits. Released on November 14, 1995, it serves as a companion album to the band's previous compilation, '' Collection I''. Both com ...

'', a 1995 companion album to the Misfits' ''Collection I''

Collections

* ''Collections'' (Alexia album) * ''Collections'' (Rick Ashley album), 2006 * ''Collections'' (Cypress Hill album) * ''Collections'' (Terence Trent D'Arby album), 2006 * ''Collections'' (Delphic album), 2013 * ''Collections'' (Amanda Marshall album), 2006 * ''Collections'' (Charlie Major album), 2006 * ''Collections'' (Red Norvo, Art Pepper, Joe Morello and Gerry Wiggins album), 1957 * ''Collections'' (Yanni album), 2008 * ''Collections'' (The Young Rascals album), 1967

Other uses

* Collection #1, a database of sets of email addresses and passwords *

Collections care Collection or Collections may refer to: * Cash collection, the function of an accounts receivable department * Collection (church), money donated by the congregation during a church service * Collection agency, agency to collect cash * Collectio ...

, to prevent or delay the deterioration of cultural heritage * Collection class, in object-oriented programming *

Generated collection In diatonic set theory, a generated collection is a collection or scale formed by repeatedly adding a constant interval in integer notation, the generator, also known as an interval cycle, around the chromatic circle until a complete collect ...