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spreadly

spreadly adverb: in a spread out or widespread manner; widely.

Adverb

spreadly (comparative more spreadly, superlative most spreadly)

  1. In a spread out or widespread manner; widely.
    • Flower white, or slightly tinged with straw-colour, edged with crimson, spreadly open very much when full blown.1827, Robert Sweet, The florist's guide, and cultivator's directory
    • Moreover they are spreadly diffused and, in comparison with mainframes, they allow an easy direct access to system resources.1987, J. L. Atwood, J. E. D. Davies, Structural Health Monitoring and Intelligent Infrastructure ..., Volume 2

Examples of spreadly in a sentence

  • In the last few years the use of amorphous ribbons as core of magnetoelastic devices to measure deformation was spreadly studied in its fundamental concepts.2000, Paolo Di Barba, A. Savini, Non-linear Electromagnetic Systems: ISEM '99:
  • TripleDES, RC6, and RIJNDAEL, for example, are fast algorithms, spreadly used, and supposed to be secure.2001, George I. Davida, Yair Frankel, Information Security:
  • Even a number of cracks have appeared spreadly and have been sealed with appropriate treatments, [...]2003, Zhishen Wu, Masato Abe, Structural Health Monitoring and Intelligent Infrastructure:
  • Introduction Cryptography is currently spreadly used to protect digital communication and information processing.2004, Riccardo Focardi, Roberto Gorrieri, Foundations of Security Analysis and Design II:

Forms of spreadly

comparativemore spreadly
superlativemost spreadly

Origin of spreadly

From spread (adjective) + -ly.

Questions about spreadly

What does spreadly mean?
Spreadly means in a spread out or widespread manner; widely.
How do you use spreadly in a sentence?
In the last few years the use of amorphous ribbons as core of magnetoelastic devices to measure deformation was spreadly studied in its fundamental concepts.
What part of speech is spreadly?
Spreadly is an adverb.

Words near spreadly in the dictionary

  1. spreading the bed
  2. spreading the word
  3. spreadingly
  4. spreadingness
  5. spreadings
  6. spreadly
  7. spreadmart
  8. spreadmarts
  9. spreadover
  10. spreadovers
  11. spreads

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