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selectively

selectively adverb: in a selective manner, only affecting or applying to some selected cases.

Adverb

selectively (comparative more selectively, superlative most selectively)

  1. In a selective manner, only affecting or applying to some selected cases.
    • Our prototype implements a basic pharming attack to selectively misresolve the client domain name requests.2006, Markus Jakobsson, Steven Myers, Phishing and Countermeasures, page 128

Examples of selectively in a sentence

  • The consultant's advisory recommendations were selectively adopted.
  • Aspects of Firstspace and Secondspace are selectively and creatively combined in Thirdspace, a fully lived space.
  • Arteriolar and venular patterning in retinas of mice selectively expressing VEGF isoforms .

All 21 example sentences with selectively

Forms of selectively

comparativemore selectively
superlativemost selectively

Origin of selectively

From selective + -ly.

Words formed from selectively

Questions about selectively

What does selectively mean?
Selectively means in a selective manner, only affecting or applying to some selected cases.
What part of speech is selectively?
Selectively is an adverb.

Words near selectively in the dictionary

  1. selective school
  2. selective schools
  3. selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
  4. selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
  5. selective yellow
  6. selectively
  7. selectively mute
  8. selectiveness
  9. selectivenesses
  10. selectivities
  11. selectivity

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