Relating to or involving the process of collating or comparing documents.
Formed from 'collation' plus the adjective suffix '-al,' meaning 'of or relating to.' This technical term developed in scholarly and printing contexts to describe activities involving document verification.
You'll find this word used by archivists and scholars studying manuscripts—they talk about 'collational evidence' when comparing different versions of old texts to figure out which is the original or most authentic.
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