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Compilation a heaping or piling together; an accumulation; a literary work compiled from various sources. Examples: compilation of foreign memoirs, 1794; of the mass, 1728; of theological systems, 1837. Selection, assembly, and graphic presentation of all relevant information required for the preparation of a map or chart. Such information may be derived from other maps or charts or from other sources. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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I don't wish to be hampered by any restrictions in the compilation of my notes. Here, after gradually failing in loftier hopes, he had "read" with divers who had lacked opportunities or neglected them, and had refurbished divers others for special occasions, and had turned his acquirements to the account of literary compilation and correction, and on such means, added to some very moderate private resources, still maintained the house I saw. Ferguson had also provided himself with a work which combined in one compilation all the notions already acquired concerning the Nile. |
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