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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King