Collation (disambiguation)
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Collation may have the following meanings:
- In succession law, collation is an act of estimating the value of the intestate propertyIntestacyIntestacy is the condition of the estate of a person who dies owning property greater than the sum of their enforceable debts and funeral expenses without having made a valid will or other binding declaration; alternatively where such a will or declaration has been made, but only applies to part of...
. - In religious lawReligious lawIn some religions, law can be thought of as the ordering principle of reality; knowledge as revealed by a God defining and governing all human affairs. Law, in the religious sense, also includes codes of ethics and morality which are upheld and required by the God...
, collation is the legal process and ritual act by which a Parish Priest is appointed to his living, especially in the Anglican Church. - In religion, collationCollation (meal)The term "collation" originates in the Roman Catholic Church, where it refers to the two small meals allowed on days of fasting, with or without abstinence. Traditionally, the reading in Benedictine monasteries of excerpts from Collationes patrum in scetica eremo, written by John Cassian, was...
is a light meal in British English, and some religious traditions. - In library and information science and computer science, collationCollationCollation is the assembly of written information into a standard order. One common type of collation is called alphabetization, though collation is not limited to ordering letters of the alphabet...
is an act of assembling written information into a standard order. - In textual criticismTextual criticismTextual criticism is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts...
and bibliographyBibliographyBibliography , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology...
, collation is the process of determining the differences between two or more texts is found in the detailed bibliographyBibliographyBibliography , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology...
of a book or the comparison of the physical makeup of two copies of a book. - In printing and photocopying, bookbindingBookbindingBookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from a number of folded or unfolded sheets of paper or other material. It usually involves attaching covers to the resulting text-block.-Origins of the book:...
, also called collation, is ordering pages when several copies of a document are bound after printing or copying.