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# compilation

noun (a compilation, compilations; also uncountable)

«compilation» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A collection of things, such as songs, videos, facts or stories, put together in one album, book or list: «a compilation of funny animal clips». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compilation/#m1)
2. The act of collecting and arranging such things: «The compilation of the dictionary took years». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compilation/#m2)
3. (computing) The process in which a program called a compiler turns code written by people into code the computer runs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compilation/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life there are compilation albums («Now That's What I Call Music»), compilation videos and «best of» collections. In school, a class might make a compilation of poems or recipes. In computing lessons with languages like Rust or C, the code must go through compilation before it can run. Phrases: «a compilation album», «a compilation video», «a compilation of», «compilation error».

### Examples

- Dad bought a compilation of the greatest songs of the 1980s. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compilation/#x1)
- We watched a compilation of the funniest football fails. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compilation/#x2)
- Our class made a compilation of favourite family recipes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compilation/#x3)
- The compilation of the report took the whole weekend. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compilation/#x4)
- The program would not run because of a compilation error. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compilation/#x5)
- This book is a compilation of fairy tales from around the world. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compilation/#x6)
- The yearbook is a compilation of photos from the whole school year. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compilation/#x7)
- The whole of this literature was summed up by Somadeva, c. 1200 A.D. in a huge compilation entitled Katha Sarit Sagara ("Ocean of the Stream of Stories"). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compilation/#x8)

### Note

Comes from the verb «compile» (to collect and put together). Countable when it means a collection (two compilations), uncountable when it means the process. Said «kom-pi-LAY-shun». Do not confuse with «complication» (a difficulty).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «compilation» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compilation/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«compilation» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/compilation.html) on Mova free.