title: Collation (disambiguation)
text: # Collation (disambiguation)
  
  In library, information and computer science, collation is the process of assembling written information into a standard order.
  
  Collation may also have the following meanings:
  
  * Collation (meal), a light meal allowed on days of fasting in some religious traditions
  * In succession law, collation is an act of estimating the value of the intestate property
  * In ecclesiastical law, collation is the legal process and ritual act by which a parish priest is appointed to their living, especially in Anglicanism
  * In textual criticism and bibliography, collation is the process of determining the differences between two or more texts found in the detailed bibliography of a book or the comparison of the physical makeup of two copies of a book
  * In printing and photocopying, bookbinding, also called collation, is ordering pages when several copies of a document are bound after printing or copying
  