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imbricately

imbricately adverb: in an imbricate manner.

Adverb

imbricately (comparative more imbricately, superlative most imbricately)

  1. In an imbricate manner.
    • The area of each specimen was lased imbricately twice with a uniformly slow speed at a 90-degree angle to the surface and at a distance of 1 mm.2015 November 7, “Effect of Er,Cr:YSGG Laser at Different Output Powers on the Micromorphology and the Bond Property of Non-Carious Sclerotic Dentin to Resin Composites”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of imbricately

comparativemore imbricately
superlativemost imbricately

Origin of imbricately

From imbricate + -ly.

Questions about imbricately

What does imbricately mean?
Imbricately means in an imbricate manner.
What part of speech is imbricately?
Imbricately is an adverb.

Words near imbricately in the dictionary

  1. imbrews
  2. imbrex
  3. Imbrian
  4. imbricate
  5. imbricated
  6. imbricately
  7. imbricates
  8. imbricatin
  9. imbricating
  10. imbrication
  11. imbrications

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