COLLECTIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does collectively mean? 

• COLLECTIVELY (adverb)
  The adverb COLLECTIVELY has 1 sense:

1. in conjunction with; combined

  Familiarity information: COLLECTIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLECTIVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In conjunction with; combined

Synonyms:

collectively; conjointly; jointly; together with

Context example:

we couldn't pay for the damages with all our salaries put together

Pertainym:

collective (forming a whole or aggregate)

 Context examples 

Located just south of Mars' equator, Arsia Mons is the southernmost member of a trio of broad, gently sloping shield volcanoes collectively known as Tharsis Montes.

(Mars Volcano, Earth's Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time, NASA)

The germ cells, collectively as distinguished from the somatic cells or soma, are the reproductive cells of the body, specifically, either egg or sperm cells.

(Murine Germ Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

The galaxies that the team studied, collectively known as SPT0311-58, were originally identified as a single luminous source.

(Massive primordial galaxies found in ‘halo’ of dark matter, National Science Foundation)

Such speedy particles are collectively called “dark radiation” and include previously known particles like neutrinos, which are created in nuclear reactions and radioactive decays.

(Measuring Growth of Universe Reveals a Mystery, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A general term collectively applied to tumors associated with the APUD cell series irrespective of their specific identification.

(Neoplasm of the Diffuse Neuroendocrine System, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Essential for transcription initiation, GTF3B (C-terminus) binds TBP (collectively, TFIIIB) as one of three RNA polymerase III transcription factor subunits.

(General Transcription Factor 3B 90-kD Subunit, NCI Thesaurus)

This microbial community, collectively known as the gut microbiota, plays a role in illness and health.

(Food additives promote inflammation, colon cancer in mice, National Institutes of Health)

They reviewed 21 studies that had looked at 1,503 people collectively.

(Anxiety May Be Alleviated by Changing Gut Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Yet the skin hosts diverse communities of beneficial bacteria, collectively known as the skin microbiota.

(Skin Microbes and the Immune Response, NIH)

Collectively, these mechanisms (or a combination thereof) are predicted to disturb cellular homeostasis (within glial and/or motor neurons), ultimately triggering motor neuron death.

(Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)