Compilation
noun
A collection of different things or parts that have been put together.
The band released a compilation album of their greatest hits.
Often appears as...
- best of compilation
- compilation album
noun
In computing, the process of changing instructions from a high-level programming language into a form that can be understood by a computer.
After writing the code, the next step is the compilation of the program.
Often appears as...
- code compilation
- compilation process
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noun
A collection of different things or parts that have been put together.
The band released a compilation album of their greatest hits.
Often appears as...
- best of compilation
- compilation album
noun
In computing, the process of changing instructions from a high-level programming language into a form that can be understood by a computer.
After writing the code, the next step is the compilation of the program.
Often appears as...
- code compilation
- compilation process
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Varied Contents
A compilation typically includes diverse items chosen for a specific purpose or theme.
The compilation book of short stories featured various genres.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Random
Items in a compilation are selected carefully, not just randomly thrown together.
The documentary used a compilation of historic footage.
Pro Tip 3/3Thematic Unity
Compilations often revolve around a central theme, topic, or artist.
The film festival's compilation focused on climate change.
Pro Tip 1/3Varied Contents
A compilation typically includes diverse items chosen for a specific purpose or theme.
The compilation book of short stories featured various genres.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Random
Items in a compilation are selected carefully, not just randomly thrown together.
The documentary used a compilation of historic footage.
Pro Tip 3/3Thematic Unity
Compilations often revolve around a central theme, topic, or artist.
The film festival's compilation focused on climate change.
Pro Tip 1/3Varied Contents
A compilation typically includes diverse items chosen for a specific purpose or theme.
The compilation book of short stories featured various genres.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Random
Items in a compilation are selected carefully, not just randomly thrown together.
The documentary used a compilation of historic footage.
Pro Tip 3/3Thematic Unity
Compilations often revolve around a central theme, topic, or artist.
The film festival's compilation focused on climate change.
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Community-powered...
And so we developed tools and vehicles for families to tell the fuller story of their loved one so they would be understood as more than just a case file. They started making what we call social biography packets, which is families making a compilation of photos and certificates and letters
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Tim Laman & Ed Scholes:...
meant how long it would take us to finish the rest but that became our objective so of course in order to document all 39 species that means going everywhere that all the birds-of-paradise occur so this is the global range of the birds of paradise it's the the compilation of all the
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Rob Dunbar: The threat...
of temperature change that go back hundreds of years, and we put them together. Here's a synthetic diagram. There's a whole family of curves here. But what's we're looking at the last thousand years of temperature on the planet. And there's five or six different compilations there,
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Proof: Lynn Johnson on...
standing at the grave I owe those women who walk for three days to get water I owe you know my parents and you know all those colleagues and all those great editors and all those you know all those people that helped over the years you know we are a compilation of all that
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Elon Musk: A future...
We've had many Hindenburg. Well, we've never had Hindenburg moments with people, which is very important. Big difference. We've blown up quite a few rockets. So there's a whole compilation online that we put together and others put together, it's showing rockets are hard.
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Chimps "Mourn"...
difficult to to say for anybody I would say the scientists have released this video in the hope that other researchers will see it and have the chance to videotape similar scenes it's hoped that a compilation of data and video evidence will help answer questions about our
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Didier Sornette: How we...
in the biosphere, in the atmosphere, in the ocean, showing these super-exponential trajectories characterizing an unsustainable path and announcing a phase transition. This diagram on the right shows a very beautiful compilation of studies
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The passing of time,...
Day to Night is about all the things, it's like a compilation of all the things I love about the medium of photography. It's about landscape, it's about street photography, it's about color, it's about architecture,
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The Secret Somali...
labels in their place hundreds of small cassette shops around the horn of africa would record the music from the radio and sell it back to the public as cassettes they'd even do custom compilations on
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Greg Wilson: Cheetahs on...
itself and the creatures that we share this world with and with that I'd like to play the piece that will be one shot at night and then a compilation of the best of so thank you
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Community-powered...
And so we developed tools and vehicles for families to tell the fuller story of their loved one so they would be understood as more than just a case file. They started making what we call social biography packets, which is families making a compilation of photos and certificates and letters
Video examples
Tim Laman & Ed Scholes:...
meant how long it would take us to finish the rest but that became our objective so of course in order to document all 39 species that means going everywhere that all the birds-of-paradise occur so this is the global range of the birds of paradise it's the the compilation of all the
Video examples
Rob Dunbar: The threat...
of temperature change that go back hundreds of years, and we put them together. Here's a synthetic diagram. There's a whole family of curves here. But what's we're looking at the last thousand years of temperature on the planet. And there's five or six different compilations there,
Video examples
Proof: Lynn Johnson on...
standing at the grave I owe those women who walk for three days to get water I owe you know my parents and you know all those colleagues and all those great editors and all those you know all those people that helped over the years you know we are a compilation of all that
Video examples
Elon Musk: A future...
We've had many Hindenburg. Well, we've never had Hindenburg moments with people, which is very important. Big difference. We've blown up quite a few rockets. So there's a whole compilation online that we put together and others put together, it's showing rockets are hard.
Video examples
Chimps "Mourn"...
difficult to to say for anybody I would say the scientists have released this video in the hope that other researchers will see it and have the chance to videotape similar scenes it's hoped that a compilation of data and video evidence will help answer questions about our
Video examples
Didier Sornette: How we...
in the biosphere, in the atmosphere, in the ocean, showing these super-exponential trajectories characterizing an unsustainable path and announcing a phase transition. This diagram on the right shows a very beautiful compilation of studies
Video examples
The passing of time,...
Day to Night is about all the things, it's like a compilation of all the things I love about the medium of photography. It's about landscape, it's about street photography, it's about color, it's about architecture,
Video examples
The Secret Somali...
labels in their place hundreds of small cassette shops around the horn of africa would record the music from the radio and sell it back to the public as cassettes they'd even do custom compilations on
Video examples
Greg Wilson: Cheetahs on...
itself and the creatures that we share this world with and with that I'd like to play the piece that will be one shot at night and then a compilation of the best of so thank you
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Francisco Costa
Brazilian Designer
When I say art influences me, which it does, it's not at all in a literal form. You go and see exhibitions or collections or meet an artist. It's all a compilation. Every moment, at all times, all this information. Then all this information disappears, and it shows up later in the process.
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Jackie DeShannon
American Musician
No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.
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Simon Sebag Montefiore
British Historian
I'm the last person who would end up doing something that needs meticulous compilation of facts. It's totally against my character. I live by impulse. I'm totally ill-suited to writing history books.
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Camryn Manheim
American Actress
The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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Thomas Steinbeck
American Writer
The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn from one model.
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Flying Lotus
American Musician
I don't want to do one of those records where it's like a compilation of a bunch of all sorts of rappers on my beats. I don't find those to be focused albums.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
American President
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
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Sean Evans
American Entertainer
Taking mass transit is an uphill battle and one wrong move can put you on the latest Worldstarhiphop fight compilation.
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Pink
American Musician
Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.
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Connor Franta
American Entertainer
On Common Culture, you'll find coffee, clothing, and compilations. So many C's!
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Francisco Costa
Brazilian Designer
When I say art influences me, which it does, it's not at all in a literal form. You go and see exhibitions or collections or meet an artist. It's all a compilation. Every moment, at all times, all this information. Then all this information disappears, and it shows up later in the process.
Quote examples
Jackie DeShannon
American Musician
No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.
Quote examples
Simon Sebag Montefiore
British Historian
I'm the last person who would end up doing something that needs meticulous compilation of facts. It's totally against my character. I live by impulse. I'm totally ill-suited to writing history books.
Quote examples
Camryn Manheim
American Actress
The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
Quote examples
Thomas Steinbeck
American Writer
The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn from one model.
Quote examples
Flying Lotus
American Musician
I don't want to do one of those records where it's like a compilation of a bunch of all sorts of rappers on my beats. I don't find those to be focused albums.
Quote examples
Franklin D. Roosevelt
American President
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Quote examples
Sean Evans
American Entertainer
Taking mass transit is an uphill battle and one wrong move can put you on the latest Worldstarhiphop fight compilation.
Quote examples
Pink
American Musician
Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.
Quote examples
Connor Franta
American Entertainer
On Common Culture, you'll find coffee, clothing, and compilations. So many C's!
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