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Meaning of collectional | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to collecting, gathering, or grouping items together.
    not-comparable
  2. Of or pertaining to a collection (set of items gathered together or a set of related items) or collections.
    not-comparable
  3. Pertaining to a collection (set of pitch classes).
    not-comparable
  4. Pertaining to all elements of a collection simultaneously, rather than to the individual elements of the collection or to the collection as a whole.
    not-comparable

Examples

“In the stage of collectional economy man appropriates nature's gifts. This has been called the hunting and fishing stage.”
“Physical bookmarks based on collectional artefacts and metadata actions are proposed. Filing cabinets, shelves, paper clips or poster tubes are introduced as examples of collectional artefacts.”
“The primary notational function of the oval is to group propositions together. That is, it is a collectional sign like parantheses are in a non-diagrammatic syntax.”
“Considering that that colony is only seventy-five years old, of which the first twenty-five must have been wasted for collectional purposes, there is a well-arranged and perfectly systematical collection of fossil remains, birds, beasts, shells, &c., which reflects the highest credit on Dr. Krebs, who is the Curator.”
“In the collectional approach numbers are described as collections of standard "sizes" or "values" (ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.).”
“- handling the information about collectional materials for the scientific research centres in the country and abroad,”
“Where appropriate, we will comment on editorial groupings and consider what light the collectional pairings might shed on the theological understandings of the collectors.”
“Collectional patterns primarily: Deal with groups or collections of objects; Deal with the details of how to compose classes and objects to form larger structures; Concentrate on the most efficient way of designing a class so that its instances do not carry any duplicate data; Allow the definiton of operations of collections of objects.”
“The "collectional information" one receives is ambiguous since the collection { C, E, F, G, A } occurs in the key of C and in the key of F”
“The collectional reference typically consists of either the octatonic or diatonic collections, although a significant amount of the work can also be analyzed using the modes of non-diatonic minor scales.”
“Not finding any overarching tonal organization to hold things together, whether in the form of a traditional key scheme or something more loosely (if still functionally) construed as tonal, music analysts may find their best alternative in a "collectional" approach, using pitch or pitch-class sets.”
“Between sketches B and C, the contents of the highest and lowest lines have been exchanged, associating the different interval patterns of the outer voices with each other's collectional contents.”
“Such quantifiers are characterized as dispensive(or distributive), and are distinguished from collective reference (e.g. "All S, taken together, are P") and collectional reference (e.g. "All S, separately but simultaneously, are P").”
“The aggregation relationship appears like a family of four different kinds of relationships. We note Aₑ the set relationship, Aₛ the segmentational one, A_f the functional one, and A_c, the collectional one.”
“For an infinite of finite order multiplied into itself gives a higher order. That is not the case with collectional infinities. On the contrary, each is the exponential of the preceding.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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