collectional

English

Etymology

collection +‎ -al

Adjective

collectional (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to collecting, gathering, or grouping items together.
   • 2003, N. S.B. Graf, Business and Capitalism: An Introduction to Business History, page 4:

     In the stage of collectional economy man appropriates nature's gifts. This has been called the hunting and fishing stage.

   • 2017, Beat Signer, Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces, page 57:

     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.

   • 2020, Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, Francesco Bellucci, Anglina Bobrova, Nathan Hayon, Mohammad Shafiei, “The Blot”, in Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, Peter Chapman, Leonie Bosveld-de Smet, editors, Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, page 231:

     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.

2. Of or pertaining to a collection (set of items gathered together or a set of related items) or collections.
   • 1874, Henry Alworth Merewether, By Sea and by Land, page 155:

     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.

   • 1955, Montgomery County (Md.). Board of Education, Elementary Mathematics, page 11:

     In the collectional approach numbers are described as collections of standard "sizes" or "values" (ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.).

   • 1976, Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter - Issues 32-44, page 23:

     - handling the information about collectional materials for the scientific research centres in the country and abroad,

   • 1991, Kathleen Anne Farmer, Who Knows what is Good?, page 64:

     Where appropriate, we will comment on editorial groupings and consider what light the collectional pairings might shed on the theological understandings of the collectors.

   • 2004, Partha Kuchana, Software Architecture Design Patterns in Java, page 135:

     Collectional patterns primarily: Deal with groups or collections of objects; Deal with the details of how to compose classes and objects to form larger structures; Concentrate on the most efficient way of designing a class so that its instances do not carry any duplicate data; Allow the definiton of operations of collections of objects.

3. (music) Pertaining to a collection (set of pitch classes).
   • 2005, Neil Minturn, The Last Waltz of The Band, page 112:

     The "collectional information" one receives is ambiguous since the collection { C, E, F, G, A } occurs in the key of C and in the key of F

   • 2006, Daniel Chemistruck, Imposing Harmonic Restrictions on Symmetrical Scales, page 9:

     The collectional reference typically consists of either the octatonic or diatonic collections, although a significant amount of the work can also be analyzed using the modes of non-diatonic minor scales.

   • 2012, Marguerite Boland, John Link, Elliott Carter Studies, page 22:

     Not finding any overarching tonal organization to hold things together, whether in the form of a traditional key scheme or something more loosely (if still functionally) construed as tonal, music analysts may find their best alternative in a "collectional" approach, using pitch or pitch-class sets.

   • 2014, Andrew Mead, An Introduction to the Music of Milton Babbitt, page 15:

     Between sketches B and C, the contents of the highest and lowest lines have been exchanged, associating the different interval patterns of the outer voices with each other's collectional contents.

4. (logic) Pertaining to all elements of a collection simultaneously, rather than to the individual elements of the collection or to the collection as a whole.
   • 1995, Avi Sion, Judaic Logic, page 13:

     Such quantifiers are characterized as dispensive(or distributive), and are distinguished from collective reference (e.g. "All S, taken together, are P") and collectional reference (e.g. "All S, separately but simultaneously, are P").

   • 1996, John E.E. Sharpe, AI System Support for Conceptual Design, page 324:

     The aggregation relationship appears like a family of four different kinds of relationships. We note A_e the set relationship, A_s the segmentational one, A_f the functional one, and A_c, the collectional one.

   • 2022, Stetson J. Robinson, The Correspondence of Charles S. Peirce and the Open Court Publishing Company, 1890–1913, page 493:

     For an infinite of finite order multiplied into itself gives a higher order. That is not the case with collectional infinities. On the contrary, each is the exponential of the preceding.

References

• “collectional”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.