com·pi·la·tion / ˌkämpəˈlāshən/ • n. 1. the action or process of producing something, esp. a list, book, or report, by assembling information collected from other sources.2. a thing, esp. a book, record, or broadcast program, that is put together by assembling previously separate items.

Compilation

a heaping or piling together; an accumulation; a literary work compiled from various sources.

Examples: compilation of foreign memoirs, 1794; of the mass, 1728; of theological systems, 1837.