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collective

adj
/kəˈlɛktɪv/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *léǵeti Proto-Italic *legō Latin legō Latin colligō Latin collēctus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Latin collēctīvusder. Middle French collectifder. English collective From Middle French collectif, from Latin collēctīvus, from collēctus, past participle of colligō (“to collect”), from com- (“together”) + legō (“to gather”). Compare French collectif. Doublet of colectivo.

  1. derived from collēctīvus
  2. derived from collectif

Definitions

  1. Formed by gathering or collecting

    Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body.

    • the collective body of a nation

  2. Tending to collect

    Tending to collect; forming a collection.

    • Local is his throne […] to fix a point, / A central point, collective of his sons.

  3. Having plurality of origin or authority.

  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form.

    2. Deducing consequences

      Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.

      • critical and collective reason

    3. A farm owned by a collection of people.

    4. One of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community.

    5. A collective noun or name.

    6. A group dedicated to a particular cause or interest.

      • There are, however, a number of contemporary artists and art collectives that have defined their practice precisely around the facilitation of dialogue among diverse communities.
      • Critical Art Ensemble is one of many art collectives operating on the principle that information is power and that it is most effectively made available through a combination of science and aesthetics.
      • Today’s collectives create together, tour together, exhibit together, live together, survive together, eat together, sleep together, march together, fight together and party together, too.

    7. The flight control used to control a helicopter's ascent or descent.

      • A pilot normally holds the collective stationary until the helicopter stops; however, to get more braking action, lower the collective slightly. Keep in mind that, due to the increased ground friction when the collective is lowered or[…]
      • Hover height, rate of ascent, and the rate of descent are controlled by using the collective. Helicopter position and the direction of travel are controlled by the cyclic.

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Derived

anticollective, collective action, collective agreement, collective bargaining, collective-bargaining agreement, collective buying, collective call sign, collective fruit, collective investment scheme, collectively, collective memory, collective mode, collectiveness, collective note, collective number, collective numeral, collective punishment, collective security, collective species, collective study, collective title, collective unconscious, collective West, collectivism, collectivist, collectivization, hypercollective, noncollective, collective noun, collectivize, thought collective

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at collective. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at collective. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at collective

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA