plural 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.

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.

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

simple past tense and past participle of collate

plural of collator

of, or pertaining to collation