Collection

Definitions

1. A generic group of values managed together through a container abstraction such as a list, set, map, queue, or dictionary. Collections are a foundational programming concept because they determine how data is stored, traversed, and manipulated in memory.

   In plain English: A group of items stored together in a data structure.

   Example: "They switched the intermediate results from a list to a set because the collection only needed uniqueness, not insertion order."

Related Terms

• List
• Map
• Set
• Array List
• Array Map
• Array Slice
• Container Config
• Container Exec