Crossword clues for compilation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compilation \Com"pi*la"tion\, n. [L. compilatio: cf. F. compilation.]
The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
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That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.
His [Goldsmith's] compilations are widely distinguished from the compilations of ordinary bookmakers.
--Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "that which is compiled," also "action of compiling," from Middle French compilation, from Latin compilationem (nominative compilatio) "a compilation," literally "a pillaging," noun of action from compilare (see compile).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources. 2 (context countable English) That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents. 3 (context uncountable computing English) Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Compilation may refer to:
- In computer programming, the translation of source code into object code by a compiler
- Compilation error
- Compilation unit
- Product bundling, a marketing strategy used to sell multiple products
- Compilation thesis
Compilation (also known as Caustic Window Compilation) is one of only two full length acid house- techno albums by Richard D. James released under his pseudonym of Caustic Window. The album consists of most of the tracks from the EPs Joyrex J4 EP, Joyrex J5 EP, Joyrex J9i and Joyrex J9ii.
Compilation is a compilation cassette by New Zealand group The Clean. It was released first time in 1986 by Flying Nun Records.
Usage examples of "compilation".
She adds that her health is so far re-established that she is able to give five hours a day to study and to the compilation of her History of the Burman Mission, a work she had very much at heart.
The Annals of the Kievan period are contained chiefly in two compilations, which in one form or another appear at the head of most later codices.
As a matter of standard operating procedure, new colonies transmit a daily compilation of all colony data into a skip drone, which then skips back to Phoenix so that the Colonial government can keep tabs on colony matters.
My dear Sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History with the works of other historians of this age?
Her latest compilation of tripe, Red Blood Reigns, has been on the lamebrained Times best-seller list for untold eons.
So I used the paragraphs from the compilation as a means of getting started back again.
This, tied to interpretative software, might even allow us to automate the compilation of historic-figure biographies, at first draft anyhow.
How much Greek Boccaccio learned from him, and how far he may have been beholden to him in the compilation of his elaborate Latin treatise De Genealogia Deorum, in which he essayed with very curious results to expound the inner meaning of mythology, it is impossible to say.
After getting dressed and putting my Walkman on, clipping its body to the Lycra shorts and placing the phones over my ears, a Stephen Bishop/Christopher Cross compilation tape Todd Hunter made for me, I check myself in the mirror before entering the gym and, dissatisfied, go back to my briefcase for some mousse to slick my hair back and then I use a moisturizer and, for a small blemish I notice under my lower lip, a dab of Clinique Touch‑Stick.
Her Lo/Rez collection, albums, compilations and bootlegs, were displayed as the original cased disks.
The gist of the matter is set out in three compilations, to which I shall refer again almost immediately.
Presently there will be far better compilations to meet this need, or perhaps the gist of all the three divisions of knowledge, concentrated and made more lucid and attractive, may be available as the intellectual frame of modern education throughout the world, as a "General Account of Life" that should be given to everyone.
We have evidence that they were collected and studied in the great library of Alexandria [Egypt] and that compilations of them were made by the geographers who worked there.
Those thus attributed in both these compilations are all included in the translations below.
Her Lo/Rez collection, albums, compilations and bootlegs, were displayed as the original cased disks.