Collation

Collation

(1) The assembling of pages of publications, in sequence. (2) The verification of the order, number and date of maps.

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Industry/Domain: Earth science
Category: Mapping science
Company: American Congress on Surveying & Mapping
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Printing & publishing; Publishing

To gather or arrange pages in their proper sequence; derived from "bring together". Also, to verify the arrangement of gathered sheets, their number and order, for a volume or ...

collate

Legal services; Courts

To arrange in order; verify arrangement of pages before binding or fastening; put together.

collation

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

The process of ordering units of textual information. Collation is usually specific to a particular language. Also known as alphabetizing or alphabetic sorting. Unicode Technical ...

collator

Engineering; Electronic engineering

In a punched-card system, a device that collates (See collate) punched cards.

collate

Engineering; Electronic engineering

In data processing, to produce an ordered set from two or more similarly ordered sets (as punched cards).

subtropical

Earth science; Mapping science

Relating to the warmest region of the Temperate Zones that border on the Torrid Zone.

sky

Earth science; Mapping science

The region above and beyond the Earth, as it is seen looking up from the ground. Sky looks blue during the day and dark at night.

South Pole

Earth science; Mapping science

The most southern point of the Earth. The South Pole is the southern end of the axis on which the Earth rotates.

prime meridian

Earth science; Mapping science

The line of longitude that passes through the town of Greenwich, England, and that measures 0 degree. It is the line from which other longitude lines are measured.

planet

Earth science; Mapping science

A celestial body revolving around a sun in a nearly circular orbit. This definition excludes comets, which have highly elliptical orbits. However, it may also exclude some of ...

area of error

Earth science; Mapping science

A figure within which the true location of a point whose location has been determined by measurement is believed to lie, with stated degree of probability.

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