compilation
n. C / Un. a collection of things like songs, videos, or facts that someone has put together into one list or book.
n. the act of gathering various items or data into a single work; also refers to the resulting collection itself.
She released a compilation of her greatest hits.
The research team published a compilation of all the data they gathered during the five-year study.
The anthology serves as a comprehensive compilation of early twentieth-century poetry, featuring both celebrated masters and obscure voices that had been lost to time.
English compile + -ation, from Middle French, from Latin compilatio (“a raking together, a plundering, a collection of documents”).
In its computing sense, refers to the process of translating source code into machine-readable instructions.