In data handling, to merge items from two or more similar sets to create a combined set that maintains the order or sequence of items in the original sets.

1. To compare critically; of texts.
2. To assemble in proper sequence; SYN. collect.
compare closely; classify; gather the pages (of a document) into their proper sequence.

ETYM Late Lat. collateralis; col- + lateralis lateral. Related to Lateral.
1. Accompaniment to something else.
2. Descended from a common ancestor but through different lines; SYN. indirect, oblique.
3. Serving to support or corroborate; SYN. confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying.
4. Situated or running side by side.
5. Derived from same main stock but subsidiary; secondary.
6. Security available in return for a loan. Usually stocks, shares, property, or life insurance policies will be accepted as collateral.

Množina: collaterals

A security pledged for the repayment of a loan.
Real estate, equipment, inventory, and even accounts receivable pledged as security when a company borrows money from a lending institution. (The resulting loan is known as a secured loan.)

Množina: collateral circulations

Množina: collateral damages

Injury inflicted on something other than an intended target; specifically; civilian casualties of a military operation

Množina: collateral issues

Množina: collateral securities

Množina: collateralities

1. To make (a loan) secure with collateral
2. To use (as securities) for collateral

Indirectly, circuitously, in a roundabout manner