Associations to the word «Compilation»

Wiktionary

COMPILATION, noun. (uncountable) The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
COMPILATION, noun. (countable) That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.
COMPILATION, noun. (uncountable) (computing) Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.

Dictionary definition

COMPILATION, noun. Something that is compiled (as into a single book or file).
COMPILATION, noun. The act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list); "the job of compiling the inventory took several hours".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats