Collection or Collections may refer to: *

Cash collection Cash collection Accounts receivable. It is the recovery of cash from a business or individual with which you have issued an Invoice. Unpaid invoices are considered outstanding. Invoices are always issued with terms of payment. These terms vary wi ...

, the function of an accounts receivable department * Collection (church), money donated by the congregation during a church service * Collection agency, 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

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 individual ...

, sometimes just called "collection" *

Collection (Oxford colleges) At Colleges of the University of Oxford, a Collection may be one of two things: *An examination taken at the beginning of term by undergraduates/graduates, testing the work done in the previous term, and often based on past paper questions (typic ...

, a beginning-of-term exam or Principal's Collections * Collection (horse), a horse carrying more weight on his hindquarters than his forehand *

Collection (racehorse) Collection () 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 nominees of Hong Kong Horse of ...

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

Computing

* Collection (abstract data type), the abstract concept of collections in computer science *

Collection (linking) In computing, a linker or link editor is a computer system program that takes one or more object files (generated by a compiler or an assembler) and combines them into a single executable file, library file, or another "object" file. A simpler ...

, 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) 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 * Indexed family * Multiset *

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 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 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 * Collection ...

'', 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 compi ...

'', 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 * Collections ...

, 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 ...