ETYM Late Lat. collector one who collects: cf. French collecteur.
1. A person who collects things (e.g. stamps) as a hobby.
2. A person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes); SYN. gatherer, accumulator.
3. The electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the inter-electrode region.
4. A crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth.