The detailed bibliographical description of a book or the comparison of the physical makeup of two copies of a book

Collation, the meal in Roman Catholicism.

In library and information science and computer science, the assembly of written information into a standard order, see collating

In textual criticism and bibliography, the process of determining the differences between two or more texts

In printing and photocopying, the ordering of pages when several copies of a document are bound after printing or copying