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collective
a. a cooperative enterprise or unit, such as a collective farm
b. the members of such a cooperative

collective [kə′lek·tiv]
(meteorology)
In aviation weather observations, a group of observations transmitted in prescribed order by stations on the same long-line teletypewriter circuit. Also known as sequence.


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It totally subordinates the individual to the collectivity.
The notion of a public fountain--and, by association, any public fixture--requiring cooperation to make it work stresses how infrequently public art intelligently explores collectivity, given its ever dominant tropes of individualism and heroism.
So the program was predictable, even pedestrian, but the collectivity spinning it out was anything but.
 
 
 
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