Array and Collection

noun

• An orderly arrangement.
  • usage: "an array of troops in battle order"
• An impressive display.
  • usage: "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
• Especially fine or decorative clothing.
  • synonyms: raiment, regalia
• An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics.

verb

• Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
  • usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
  • synonyms: range, lay out, set out
• Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.
  • synonyms: align

• (n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
• (n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied especially to dress of a splendid kind.
• (n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
• (n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
• (n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
• (n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
• (n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
• (n.) An imposing series of things.
• (n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
• (n.) The panel itself.

noun

• Several things grouped together or considered as a whole.
  • synonyms: aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
• A publication containing a variety of works.
  • synonyms: compendium
• Request for a sum of money.
  • usage: "an appeal to raise money for starving children"
  • synonyms: solicitation, appeal, ingathering
• The act of gathering something together.
  • synonyms: collecting, assembling, aggregation

• (n.) That which is obtained in payment of demands.
• (n.) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
• (n.) The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
• (n.) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons.
• (n.) A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings.
• (n.) That which is collected.
• (n.) An accumulation of any substance.
• (n.) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.

When a borrower falls behind, the lender contacts them in an effort to bring the loan current. The loan goes to "collection." As part of the collection effort, the lender must mail and record certain documents in case they are eventually required to foreclose on the property.

(DoD) In intelligence usage, the acquisition of information and the provision of this information to processing elements. See also intelligence process.