Plural of collation
regular plural
The plural of collation is collations.
Forms of collation
| Singular | collation /kəˈleɪʃən/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | collations |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Collations in a sentence
- The company had little cash to spend on sumptuous cold collations, and the like.1955 April, R. K. Kirkland, “The Staines Branch, Western Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 227
- The veracity of a dendrochronological dating depends on the certainty of the collations on the dendrochronological scale.2007, Anatoly Fomenko, History: Fiction or Science?: Chronology 1, page 73. From the entry dating
- In other words, they must carry out an operation similar to the collations required by Lachmannian stemmatics, after which they must make a critical (i.e., subjective) choice.2004, Conor Fahy, “Old and New in Italian Textual Criticism”, in Raimonda Modiano, Leroy Searle, Peter L. Shillingsburg, editors, Voice…. From the entry stemmatics
Meaning of collation
- noun The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.
- noun The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.
- noun A collection, a gathering.
Questions about the plural of collation
- What is the plural of collation?
- The plural of collation is collations.
- Is collation countable?
- Collation is a countable and uncountable noun.
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