The Learning Network Blog: Word of the Day | compilation

compilation •ˌkäm-pə-ˈlā-shən also -ˌpī-• noun

1. the act of gathering with each other (as into a single book or file or list)
two. some thing that is gathered with each other (as into a single guide or file)

The word compilation has appeared in 265 New York Occasions content articles in the previous year, such as on Sept. thirty in “China Ban on Items for Nuclear Use to North Korea Might Stall Arms Bid” by Jane Perlez:

North Korea grew to become even far more of an outlier final week. China, its longtime patron, developed a list of products and chemical substances it banned for export to North Korea, fearing that the North would use the items to pace improvement of an intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear bomb on best.

… The compilation of the items, down to their measurements in each inches and millimeters, was possibly months in the producing, and nearly surely involved the knowledge of China’s nuclear and military bureaucracies, they said. The export ban would give a increase to United Nations sanctions imposed this yr that were meant to starve the North’s increasingly sophisticated nuclear applications. The North gets numerous crucial supplies from China, and American officials had extended mentioned sanctions would not function without having far more Chinese cooperation.

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The Learning Network Blog: Word of the Day | compilation