[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

compilation \com"pila"tion\, n. l. compilatio: cf. f.
   compilation.
   1. the act or process of compiling or gathering together from
      various sources.
      1913 webster

   2. that which is compiled; especially, a book or document
      composed of materials gathering from other books or
      documents.
      1913 webster

            his goldsmith's compilations are widely
            distinguished from the compilations of ordinary
            bookmakers.                           --macaulay.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

compilation
     n 1: something that is compiled as into a single book or file
          syn: digest
     2: the act of compiling as into a single book or file or
        list; "the job of compiling the inventory took several
        hours" syn: compiling
see also:
digest compiling 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

36 moby thesaurus words for "compilation":
   festschrift, album, ana, analects, anthology, aquarium, beauties,
   body, canon, chrestomathy, collectanea, collected works,
   collection, complete works, corpus, data, delectus, florilegium,
   flowers, fund, garden, garland, holdings, library, menagerie,
   miscellanea, miscellany, museum, omnibus, photograph album,
   quotation book, raw data, scrapbook, symposium, treasure, zoo

[4] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

compilation. a literary production, composed of the works of others, and 
arranged in some methodical manner. 
     2. when a compilation requires in its execution taste, learning, 
discrimination and intellectual labor, it 'is an object of copyright; as, 
for example, bacon's abridgment. curt. on copyr. 186. 

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