[mass noun]the action of collating something 收集并组合;比较分析;校勘;核对;对比 data management and collation. 数据管理和比较分析。
a light informal meal 便餐 ■(in the Roman Catholic Church) a light meal allowed during a fast (罗马天主教会)斋日的点心
语源
Middle English: via Old French from Latin collatio(n-), from conferre (see confer). Originally (in the plural) the term denoted John Cassian's Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium 'Conferences of, or with, the Egyptian Hermits' (ad 415–20), from which a reading would be given in Benedictine communities prior to a light meal (see sense 2)