Collections

Definitions

1. A framework or module providing specialized container data types beyond built-in lists, dicts, and sets. In Java, the Collections Framework includes List, Set, Map, and Queue interfaces. In Python, the collections module adds namedtuple, deque, Counter, and OrderedDict.

   In plain English: A set of ready-made containers that programming languages provide for organizing and storing groups of data in different ways.

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