The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison. / The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc. / A collection, a gathering.

(obsolete) To partake of a collation, or light meal.

plural of collation

of, or pertaining to collation

simple past tense and past participle of collation

present participle of collation

present participle of collate

(transitive) To examine diverse documents and so on, to discover similarities and differences. / (transitive) To assemble something in a logical sequence.

A person who collates. / (computing) A program or algorithm that collates. / (computing, historical) A machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collate