compilation

compilation
    n 1: something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
         [syn: {compilation}, {digest}]
    2: the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list);
       "the job of compiling the inventory took several hours" [syn:
       {compilation}, {compiling}]
    

Compilation \Com"pi*la"tion\, n. [L. compilatio: cf. F.
   compilation.]
   1. The act or process of compiling or gathering together from
      various sources.
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   2. That which is compiled; especially, a book or document
      composed of materials gathering from other books or
      documents.
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            His [Goldsmith's] compilations are widely
            distinguished from the compilations of ordinary
            bookmakers.                           --Macaulay.
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COMPILATION. A literary production, composed of the works of others, and 
arranged in some methodical manner. 
     2. When a compilation requires in its execution taste, learning, 
discrimination and intellectual labor, it 'is an object of copyright; as, 
for example, Bacon's Abridgment. Curt. on Copyr. 186. 
    

36 Moby Thesaurus words for "compilation":
      Festschrift, album, ana, analects, anthology, aquarium, beauties,
      body, canon, chrestomathy, collectanea, collected works,
      collection, complete works, corpus, data, delectus, florilegium,
      flowers, fund, garden, garland, holdings, library, menagerie,
      miscellanea, miscellany, museum, omnibus, photograph album,
      quotation book, raw data, scrapbook, symposium, treasure, zoo