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Collation

Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order. Many systems of collation are based on numerical order or alphabetical order, or extensions and combinations thereof. Collation is a fundamental element of most office filing systems, library catalogs, and reference books.

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Ordering

Scientific notationDatesLettersAlphabetSyllabary
23 related topics

Automation

AlgorithmCharacter setASCIISupersetsUnicode
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Radical-and-stroke sorting

HanziChineseKanjiJapaneseRadicals
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Labeling of ordered items

Arabic numeralsRoman numeralsBulleted listEnumerationRussian
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Ordering

Root sorting

Radical-and-stroke sorting

Automation

Labeling of ordered items

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Collation

Nodes81
Edges80
Triples57
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.024691
Components1

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Collation

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related to External links · 16
Collation → An, Archived, Cascading Style Sheets, Charts, Collation Charts, DBMSICU Locale Explorer, International Components, List, Spanish Archived, Unicode, Unicode Collation Algorithm, Unicode Technical Standard, United NationsArchived August, Wayback Machine, Wayback MachineCollation, Wayback MachineTypographical
related to Automation · 11
Collation → ASCII, ASCIIbetical, However, It, Often, So, The, Therefore, This, Unicode, When
related to Radical-and-stroke sorting · 10
Collation → Another, As, Characters, Chinese, For, In, Japanese, The, Tōkyō, When
related to Sort keys · 7
Collation → Alphabetical, For, In, Shining, Strings, The, The Shining
related to Alphabetical · 5
Collation → Alphabetical, Cherokee, If, The, To
is a · 2
Collation → assembly of written information into a standard order, fundamental element of most office filing systems

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order letters alphabetical example strings may sorting used sorted algorithm items ordering ordered systems numerical characters often first list unicode

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Collationis aassembly of written information into a standard order0.90text
Collationis afundamental element of most office filing systems0.90text
the Unicode collation algorithm defines an order through the process of comparing two given character stringsinstance ofA collation algorithm0.80text
deciding which should come before the otherinstance ofA collation algorithm0.80text
the hanzi of Chineseinstance ofused for non-alphabetic writing systems0.80text
the kanji of Japaneseinstance ofused for non-alphabetic writing systems0.80text
whose thousands of symbols defy ordering by conventioninstance ofused for non-alphabetic writing systems0.80text
Unicodeinstance ofor any of its supersets0.80text
Collationrelated to AlphabeticalAlphabetical0.60section
Collationrelated to AlphabeticalThe0.60section
Collationrelated to AlphabeticalCherokee0.60section
Collationrelated to AlphabeticalTo0.60section

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