What is the meaning of Collation?

Bringing together.

  1. The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.
  2. The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.
  3. A collection, a gathering.

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.

Discussion, light meal.

  1. A conference or consultation.
  2. The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)
  3. A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
  4. The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.
  5. Any light meal or snack.

A conference or consultation.

The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)

A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.

The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.

Any light meal or snack.

The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.

The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.

An heir's right to combine the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.

The act of conferring or bestowing.

Presentation to a benefice.

The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.

To partake of a collation, or light meal.

(used in collation des grades) the process of granting an academic degree

a light snack usually taken between breakfast and lunch (often employed as the analogue of English brunch)

discussion

discussion

Source: wiktionary.org