affecting the people or community as a whole, all fixed works built by civil engineers for public use, as railways, docks, canals, etc.; but strictly, military and civil engineering works constructed at the public cost, (Law) an act or statute affecting matters of public concern. Of such statutes the courts take judicial notice, noun_ Admirers or followers, especially of a famous person, A group of people sharing a common interest, The community or the people as a whole