collectional

Adjective

collectional (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to collecting, gathering, or grouping items together.
   • In the stage of collectional economy man appropriates nature's gifts. This has been called the hunting and fishing stage.2003, N. S.B. Graf, Business and Capitalism: An Introduction to Business History, page 4
   • Physical bookmarks based on collectional artefacts and metadata actions are proposed. Filing cabinets, shelves, paper clips or poster tubes are introduced as examples of collectional artefacts.2017, Beat Signer, Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces, page 57
2. Of or pertaining to a collection (set of items gathered together or a set of related items) or collections.
   • Considering that that colony is only seventy-five years old, of which the first twenty-five must have been wasted for collectional purposes, there is a well-arranged and perfectly systematical collection of fossil remains, birds, beasts, shells, &c., which reflects the highest credit on Dr. Krebs...1874, Henry Alworth Merewether, By Sea and by Land, page 155
   • In the collectional approach numbers are described as collections of standard "sizes" or "values" (ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.).1955, Montgomery County (Md.). Board of Education, Elementary Mathematics, page 11
3. Pertaining to a collection (set of pitch classes).
   • The "collectional information" one receives is ambiguous since the collection { C, E, F, G, A } occurs in the key of C and in the key of F2005, Neil Minturn, The Last Waltz of The Band, page 112
   • The collectional reference typically consists of either the octatonic or diatonic collections, although a significant amount of the work can also be analyzed using the modes of non-diatonic minor scales.2006, Daniel Chemistruck, Imposing Harmonic Restrictions on Symmetrical Scales, page 9
4. Pertaining to all elements of a collection simultaneously, rather than to the individual elements of the collection or to the collection as a whole.
   • Such quantifiers are characterized as dispensive(or distributive), and are distinguished from collective reference (e.g. "All S, taken together, are P") and collectional reference (e.g. "All S, separately but simultaneously, are P").1995, Avi Sion, Judaic Logic, page 13
   • The aggregation relationship appears like a family of four different kinds of relationships. We note Aₑ the set relationship, Aₛ the segmentational one, A_f the functional one, and A_c, the collectional one.1996, John E.E. Sharpe, AI System Support for Conceptual Design, page 324