Collection or Collections may refer to:

Computing

Collection (abstract data type) In computer programming, a collection is an abstract data type that is a grouping of items that can be used in a Polymorphism (computer science), polymorphic way. Often, the items are of the same data type such as Integer (computer science), int ...

, the abstract concept of collections in computer science *

Collection (linking) A linker or link editor is a computer program that combines intermediate software build files such as object and library files into a single executable file such as a program or library. A linker is often part of a toolchain that includes a comp ...

, 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 that was allocated by the program, but is no longer referenced; such memory is called ''garbage''. Gar ...

, automatic memory management method

Mathematics

Set (mathematics) In mathematics, a set is a collection of different things; the things are '' elements'' or ''members'' of the set and are typically mathematical objects: numbers, symbols, points in space, lines, other geometric shapes, variables, or other se ...

Class (set theory) In set theory and its applications throughout mathematics, a class is a collection of sets (or sometimes other mathematical objects) that can be unambiguously defined by a property that all its members share. Classes act as a way to have set-like ...

Family of sets In set theory and related branches of mathematics, a family (or collection) can mean, depending upon the context, any of the following: set, indexed set, multiset, or class. A collection F of subsets of a given set S is called a family of su ...

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 ...

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

Albums

Collection

* ''Collection'' (Soccer Mommy album), 2017 * ''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 Astley 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

Fashion

Cruise collection A cruise collection or resort collection or resort wear sometimes also holiday or travel collection (''collection croisière'' in French), is an inter-season or pre-season line of ready-to-wear clothing produced by a fashion house or fashion bran ...

Texas Fashion Collection The Texas Fashion Collection is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and documentation of historically significant fashion. It is operated by the University of North Texas through the College of Visual Arts and Design (CVAD) a ...

Other uses

Cash collection In economics, cash is money in the physical form of currency, such as banknotes and coins. In book-keeping and financial accounting, cash is current assets comprising currency or currency equivalents that can be accessed immediately or near-imm ...

, 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 c ...

, money donated by the congregation during a church service *

Collection agency Debt collection or cash collection is the process of pursuing payments of money or other agreed-upon value owed to a creditor. The debtors may be individuals or businesses. An organization that specializes in debt collection is known as a coll ...

, 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, contemporary literature, literature, technology, and documents) in museums, ...

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, repl ...

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

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

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 organ ...

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 individual ...

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

Collection (horse) Dressage ( or ; , most commonly translated as "training") is a form of horse riding performed in exhibition and competition, as well as an art sometimes pursued solely for the sake of mastery. As an equestrian sport defined by the Internation ...

, a horse carrying more weight on his hindquarters than his forehand *

Collection (racehorse) Collection (; foaled 13 February 2005) is an Irish-bred, Hong Kong–based Thoroughbred racehorse. In the season of 2008–09, Collection won the Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong Derby (HK G1-2000m) on 22 March. Collection also was one of the nomin ...

, an Irish-bred, Hong Kong–based Thoroughbred racehorse *

Collection (publishing) In the field of Publishing, book publishing, a collection or, more precisely, editorial collection (; ; ; ), is a set of books published by the same publisher, usually written by various authors, each book with its own Title (publishing), title, b ...

, 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'' (film), a 2021 film starring Alex Petttyfer * Collection #1, a database of sets of email addresses and passwords *

Collections care Disaster preparedness in museums, galleries, libraries, archives and private collections, involves any actions taken to plan for, prevent, respond or recover from natural disasters and other events that can cause damage or loss to cultural prope ...

, to prevent or delay the deterioration of cultural heritage *

Collection class In computer science, a container is a class or a data structureEntry ''data structure'' in the Encyclopædia Britannica (2009Online entryAccessed 4 Oct 2011. whose instances are collections of other objects. In other words, they store objects i ...

, in object-oriented programming *

Generated collection In music 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 collection or s ...

, a musical scale formed by repeatedly adding a constant interval around the chromatic circle