collectively

adv

collectively

adv

Etymology From collective + -ly.

1

In a collective manner; viewed together as a whole; to be treated as a single unit, rather than the items that make up the collection separately.

  • ...the tube of the throat between the larynx and the oral cavity, which is called the pharynx; the oral cavity; and the nasal cavity. These passages are collectively known as the vocal tract.2001, Michael Dobrovolsky, “Phonetics: The Sounds of Language”, in William O'Grady, John Archibald, Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller, editors, Contemporary Linguistics, →ISBN, page 18:
Synonyms
jointly, mutually
Derived terms
collectively exhaustive

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