Definition of "collectional"

collectional

adjective
not comparable
1. Of or pertaining to collecting, gathering, or grouping items together.
  Quotations
  In the stage of collectional economy man appropriates nature's gifts. This has been called the hunting and fishing stage.
  2003, N. S.B. Graf, Business and Capitalism: An Introduction to Business History, page 4
  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.
  2017, Beat Signer, Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces, page 57
  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.
  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
2. Of or pertaining to a collection (set of items gathered together or a set of related items) or collections.
  Quotations
  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.
  1874, Henry Alworth Merewether, By Sea and by Land, page 155
  In the collectional approach numbers are described as collections of standard "sizes" or "values" (ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.).
  1955, Montgomery County (Md.). Board of Education, Elementary Mathematics, page 11
  - handling the information about collectional materials for the scientific research centres in the country and abroad,
  1976, Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter - Issues 32-44, page 23
  Where appropriate, we will comment on editorial groupings and consider what light the collectional pairings might shed on the theological understandings of the collectors.
  1991, Kathleen Anne Farmer, Who Knows what is Good?, page 64
  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.
  2004, Partha Kuchana, Software Architecture Design Patterns in Java, page 135
3. (music) Pertaining to a collection (set of pitch classes).
  Quotations
  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
  2005, Neil Minturn, The Last Waltz of The Band, page 112
  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.
  2006, Daniel Chemistruck, Imposing Harmonic Restrictions on Symmetrical Scales, page 9
  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.
  2012, Marguerite Boland, John Link, Elliott Carter Studies, page 22
  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.
  2014, Andrew Mead, An Introduction to the Music of Milton Babbitt, page 15
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.
  Quotations
  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").
  1995, Avi Sion, Judaic Logic, page 13
  The aggregation relationship appears like a family of four different kinds of relationships. We note Ae the set relationship, As the segmentational one, Af the functional one, and Ac, the collectional one.
  1996, John E.E. Sharpe, AI System Support for Conceptual Design, page 324
  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.
  2022, Stetson J. Robinson, The Correspondence of Charles S. Peirce and the Open Court Publishing Company, 1890–1913, page 493