0 a book with a list of all the goods that you can buy from a store:
a mail-order catalog
2 to record something, especially in a list:
3 a listing, sometimes with explanations or pictures, of items offered for sale, of items that are available for use, or of objects described for a scientific purpose:
Our autumn catalog is now available from our usual stockists.
I've sent off for a catalog, as I can't get in to their Cambridge shop nowadays.
If you order goods from the catalog, they usually arrive within the week.
We will produce a comprehensive spectral catalog, and provide recommendations on the optimum wavelength range, spectral resolution, and instrument sensitivity required for astronomical life detection.
Richards points out that while the commodified object obscures its own history and origins, the museum provides such information on labels or in catalogs (60).
This notion is then systematically extended to par ts and catalogs.