collation

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   Bringing together: The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.
2. 2
   Bringing together: The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.
3. 3
   Bringing together: A collection, a gathering.
4. 4
   Discussion, light meal: A conference or consultation.
5. 5
   Discussion, light meal: The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)
6. 6
   Discussion, light meal: A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
7. 7
   Discussion, light meal: The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.
8. 8
   Discussion, light meal: Any light meal or snack.
9. 9
   The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
10. 10
    The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
11. 11
    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.
12. 12
    The act of conferring or bestowing.
13. 13
    Presentation to a benefice.
14. 14
    The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.
15. 15
    The process of establishing a corrected text of a work by comparing differing manuscripts or editions of it; also used to describe the work resulting from such a process.

Verb

1. 1
   To partake of a collation, or light meal.