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curation
- /kjəˈɹeɪʃən/
- /kjʊˈɹeɪʃən/
Rhymes with -eɪʃən
Where it comes from
From Middle English curacioun, curacion, from Old French curacion, from Latin cūrātiō.
noun curations
- The act of curating, of organizing and maintaining a collection of artworks or artifacts.
- The act of curing or healing.
- The manual updating of information in a database. Manual database curation involves the following steps: (1) finding articles of interest; (2) finding and extracting facts (relations, events, associations, etc.) relevant to the database focus; and (3) converting extracted information into predefined standardized form.
- The selective assembly and presentation of information. "Yeah." It was him, alright; if the world's weariest pair of workboots hadn't tipped her off, his world-weary voice certainly would have. "Where were you?" "My quarters. We've got a full ticket set today, and techs work best without oversight." Neither of these things was untrue, though the curation
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Talk about this word "curation." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/curation. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. curation. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/curation "curation." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/curation.Cite this
@misc{curation_2026,
title = {curation},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/curation},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
