The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Compilation \Com"pi*la"tion\, n. [L. compilatio: cf. F.
   compilation.]
   1. The act or process of compiling or gathering together from
      various sources.
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   2. That which is compiled; especially, a book or document
      composed of materials gathering from other books or
      documents.
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            His [Goldsmith's] compilations are widely
            distinguished from the compilations of ordinary
            bookmakers.                           --Macaulay.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

compilation
    n 1: something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
         [syn: compilation, digest]
    2: the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list);
       "the job of compiling the inventory took several hours" [syn:
       compilation, compiling]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

36 Moby Thesaurus words for "compilation":
   Festschrift, album, ana, analects, anthology, aquarium, beauties,
   body, canon, chrestomathy, collectanea, collected works,
   collection, complete works, corpus, data, delectus, florilegium,
   flowers, fund, garden, garland, holdings, library, menagerie,
   miscellanea, miscellany, museum, omnibus, photograph album,
   quotation book, raw data, scrapbook, symposium, treasure, zoo



Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

COMPILATION. A literary production, composed of the works of others, and
arranged in some methodical manner.
     2. When a compilation requires in its execution taste, learning,
discrimination and intellectual labor, it 'is an object of copyright; as,
for example, Bacon's Abridgment. Curt. on Copyr. 186.