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compilation|kɒmpɪˈleɪʃən|
[a. F. compilation, ad. L. compīlātiōn-em, n. of action f. compīlāre to compile.]
1. a. The action of compiling: see compile v. 1, 2.
c1430Lydg. Bochas vi. i. (1554) 144 b, I vndertoke The compilacion of this little boke. 1598Florio, Compilatione, a compilation, a heaping or gathering togither in one. 1611in Cotgr. 1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. (1847) I 566 The compilation of theological systems, generally called Loci Communes. 1846Wright Ess. Mid. Ages II. xii. 63 The compilation of the Gesta Romanorum.
b. spec. in Computing (see compile v. 2 c); freq. attrib.
1960Communications Assoc. Computing Machinery III. 607/2 The input information is read into the computer memory before compilation begins. 1970O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing xix. 304 The translation from source program to object program is done in a separate computer run, called the compilation run. 1973C. W. Gear Introd. Computer Sci. viii. 359 We will distinguish between..compilation time..and execution time. 1985Personal Computer World Feb. 161/1 Its compilation speed is hindered by the microdrives and by the fact that the compiler itself is written in Pascal.
2. concr. That which is compiled; a literary work or the like formed by compilation.
1426Pol. Poems (1859) II. 133 Filowyng the substaunce Of his writyng and compilacioun. 1481Caxton Myrr. i. v. 22 Alle that they fonde and sawe, they sette in compilacions. 1759Johnson Idler No. 85 That all compilations are useless I do not assert. 1794Sullivan View Nat. II. 225 The sketch of history..was little more than a brief compilation from foreign memoirs. 1844Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. xix. §1. (1862) 307 The first modern compilation which has any pretensions to the title of a complete digest.
†3. Heaping or piling together; accumulation.
⁋Cockeram (1623) has ‘Compilation, theft, murder’.
1598[see 1]. a1728Woodward Fossils (J.), There is in it a small vein filled with spar, probably since the time of the compilation of the mass.
4. attrib., as compilation film, a film, esp. a documentary, compiled from various pieces of film, all or most of which were originally shot for a different purpose.
1953K. Reisz Film Editing xiii. 194 The maker of compilation films..working with newsreel and allied material which has not been scripted or shot for the purposes for which the compiler will use it..is able to make films with a smooth, logically developing continuity. 1964J. Leyda Films beget Films 9, I wanted to examine the development and problems of the compilation film—but what an awkward, incomprehensible, and unacceptable term for this form! |
