Collection (horse), a term referring to the horse carrying more weight on his hindquarters than his forehand.
Collection (museum), objects in a particular field forms the core basis for the museum
Collection (Oxford Colleges), a beginning-of-term exam or Principal's Collections
Collection (Arvingarna album)
Collection (Magnus Uggla album)
Collection (Mike Oldfield album)
Collection (The Stranglers album)
Collection (Tracy Chapman album)
Collection (Joe Sample album)
Collection (The Jam album)
Collection I, an album compiled of early songs from The Misfits
Collection II, a companion album to The Misfits' Collection I
Collection agency, a business that pursues payments on debts
Generated collection, a scale formed by repeatedly adding a constant interval around the chromatic circle
Collection (computing), the abstract concept of collections in computer science
Collection class in object-oriented programming
A set, class (set theory), family (mathematics), or multiset in mathematics
The donation money collected from a church congregation during a service, normally by means of a collection plate
A type of anthology consisting of works by a single author

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