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competitiveness |
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compilation
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compilation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun compilation has 2 senses
- compilation(n = noun.communication) digest - something that is compiled (as into a single book or file); Array is a kind of collection, compendium
- compilation(n = noun.act) compiling - the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list); "the job of compiling the inventory took several hours" is a kind of aggregation, assembling, collecting, collection
Derived forms verb compile2, verb compile1
Derived forms verb compile2, verb compile3, verb compile1
CIDE DICTIONARY
compilation, n. [L. compilatio: cf. F. compilation.].
- The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources. [1913 Webster]
- That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents. [1913 Webster]"His [Goldsmith's] compilations are widely distinguished from the compilations of ordinary bookmakers." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
compilation, n.
1 a the act of compiling. b the process of being compiled.
2 something compiled, esp. a book etc. composed of separate articles, stories, etc.
1 a the act of compiling. b the process of being compiled.
2 something compiled, esp. a book etc. composed of separate articles, stories, etc.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. L compilatio -onis (as COMPILE)
THESAURUS
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, zooROGET THESAURUS
compilation
Compendium
N compend, compendium, abstract, precis, epitome, multum in parvo, analysis, pandect, digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu, draft, minute, note, excerpt, synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus, album, scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book, extracts, excerpta, cuttings, fugitive pieces, fugitive writing, spicilegium, flowers, anthology, collectanea, analecta, compilation, recapitulation, resume, review, abbreviation, abbreviature, contraction, shortening, compression, compendious, synoptic, analectic, abrege, abridged, variorum, in short, in epitome, in substance, in few words, it lies in a nutshell.Assemblage
N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.
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