collectional
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to collecting, gathering, or grouping items together.
adj
Of or pertaining to a collection (set of items gathered together or a set of related items) or collections.
adj
Pertaining to a collection (set of pitch classes).
adj
Pertaining to all elements of a collection simultaneously, rather than to the individual elements of the collection or to the collection as a whole.
Example Sentences
- "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,"
Etymology
From collection + -al.