Collector
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A collector is a person whose hobby is collecting objects for their interest, value, or beauty. Collector may also refer to:
- Collector (comics), a Marvel Comics cosmic being
- Collector, someone working for a collection agency, a business that pursues payments on debts owed by individuals or businesses
- A collector, part of a transistor
- in solar power, a collector converts solar radiation into heat
- Collector - in Canadian English - a lane running parallel and, usually, to the right of the express lanes of a freeway affording access between it and other grade-separated roads in a traffic interchange theoretically allowing a less impeded flow of traffic in the express lanes.
- See also Collector/distributor road
- District collector, administrative head of a district in India
- Collector, New South Wales, a town in Australia
- Collector - A term from a Bob Dylan song, with the line "she's a hypnotist collector"
- Comic collector, a collector of comic books
Collectors may refer to:
- "Collectors," a short story by Raymond Carver from his collection Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
- Collectors (TV series), an Australian television series
- for a list of collectors of art, stamps etc, see list of collectors
- In a structural system a Collector is used to transfer shear forces from the diaphragm to the shear wall