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compilation

Compiling a program. See compiler.


compilation [‚käm·pə′lā·shən]
(mapping)
The selecting, extracting, and assembling of map detail from various sources (such as existing maps, aerial photographs, and surveys), followed by the production of a new or improved map based on this data.


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I don't wish to be hampered by any restrictions in the compilation of my notes.
Here, after gradually failing in loftier hopes, he had "read" with divers who had lacked opportunities or neglected them, and had refurbished divers others for special occasions, and had turned his acquirements to the account of literary compilation and correction, and on such means, added to some very moderate private resources, still maintained the house I saw.
Ferguson had also provided himself with a work which combined in one compilation all the notions already acquired concerning the Nile.
 
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