large collection
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflargeandcollection
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large
adjective
uk/lɑːdʒ/us/lɑːrdʒ/
big in size ...
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collection
noun
uk/kəˈlek.ʃən/us/kəˈlek.ʃən/
a group of objects of one type that have been collected by one person or in ...
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(Definition oflargeandcollectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflarge collection
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He prepared the butterflies and moths himself and filed them in hislargecollection.
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There is alargecollectionof similar results in graph theory, called excluded minor theorems.
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In alargecollectionthere is always some unevenness in the quality of the contributions, as is the case here.
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To maintain alargecollectionof electrophones like the one we have, a specific knowledge base has to be developed.
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The lexicon, alargecollectionof learned arbitrary associations between very particular bits of structure, also has parallels in other domains of memory.
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Long before mutant proteins could be created in the laboratory, he had alargecollectionof single-site mutants of haemoglobin.
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Interaction with alargecollectionof visual feature nodes requires functionality for panning, zooming in and out of context, search, and the expansion of tags.
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An electronic corpus is generally understood to be alargecollectionof machinereadable texts that have been gathered according to specific criteria.
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We review the main principles for choosing between alternatives and illustrate this with alargecollectionof applications.
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This allows a single effector subclass to represent alargecollectionof individual effectors.
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Why can there not exist alargecollectionof disjoint saturated sets with high probability?
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A resolving collection is easily obtained by choosing a sufficientlylargecollectionof, say, affine contractions.
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As before, alargecollectionof further new loops in may arise in that way.
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This is a fairlylargecollectionof methods, including all the methods that are commonly used in object-oriented programming.
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I am defining a massive evil as alargecollectionof evils that are linked together by a fairly noticeable common denominator.
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This approach has been used extensively to provide alargecollectionof results, going all the way to the description of trigonometric functions, calculus and the like.
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However, this is a genuinely interesting book, containing an impressivelylargecollectionof material and ideas relating to ice- ocean sedimentation, which should find its way onto many academics' shelves.
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Data mining methods are alargecollectionof methods that, in general, generate association rules from large databases.
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One cannot help feeling, however, that, given a sounder theoretical basis, more could have been done with thelargecollectionof interesting data and the theoretical and methodological issues addressed.
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