{
  "id": "collection.group",
  "term": "collection",
  "sense": "group",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "collection",
  "domain": "lexical",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a set of items that are together in a place",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "sets.grouped",
      "items.object",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "the items are grouped as a set and coexist within a shared extent of space",
    "novel_properties": [
      "spatial co-location",
      "collective presence",
      "bounded plurality"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The British Museum houses a collection of 13 million artifacts from seven millennia of human history.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A cloud chamber reveals a collection of condensation trails left by ionizing particles from cosmic rays.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel source tree contains a collection of over 30,000 files in its 6.1 release.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "sets.grouped",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "structure.arrangement",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "album.music",
    "archive.record",
    "database.information",
    "directory.information",
    "library.information",
    "pics.visual",
    "pictures.visual",
    "statistics.data",
    "stock.inventory",
    "text.written"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "collect",
    "collected",
    "collecting",
    "collection",
    "collections",
    "collects"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added space.extent as it is necessary for 'together in a place'; the definition was correct but the record omitted a constitutive concept."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collection.group"
}