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NAMELY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
As follows
Synonyms:
namely; that is to say; to wit; videlicet; viz.
Classified under:
Context examples:
There are three types of cartilage; namely elastic, hyaline, and fibrocartilage.
(Cartilage, NCI Thesaurus)
Higher affinity binding is achieved by association with higher molecular mass, low-affinity neurotrophin receptors, namely the tropomyosin receptor kinases, TRKA (NTRK1), TRKB (NTRK2), and TRKC (NTRK3).
(Nerve Growth Factor Receptor, NCI Thesaurus)
For a quantity Q(t) continually diminishing in value, the fraction being lost per unit time, namely -(dQ/dt)/ Q.
(Decay Constant, NCI Thesaurus)
Now, using advanced DNA sequencing equipment, the researchers have sequenced the two merged genomes in a single commercially grown peanut, namely ‘Tifrunner,’ filling in knowledge gaps that the previous effort missed.
(Peanut Genome Sequenced with Unprecedent Accuracy, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
A team of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Shanghai, China have announced the first-ever cloning of a primate from post-embryonic cells, namely two macaque monkeys.
(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)
Doxorubicin also forms oxygen free radicals resulting in cytotoxicity secondary to lipid peroxidation of cell membrane lipids; the formation of oxygen free radicals also contributes to the toxicity of the anthracycline antibiotics, namely the cardiac and cutaneous vascular effects.
(Doxorubicin, NCI Thesaurus)
A popular criterion used for a cost function, namely minimizing the sum of the squares of the differences between the data points and the analytical function (often a straight line) desired as a best fit.
(Least Square, NCI Thesaurus)
I imagined myself only to be regretting my loss, and thinking how to repair it; but when my reflections were concluded, and I looked up and found that the afternoon was gone, and evening far advanced, another discovery dawned on me, namely, that in the interval I had undergone a transforming process; that my mind had put off all it had borrowed of Miss Temple—or rather that she had taken with her the serene atmosphere I had been breathing in her vicinity—and that now I was left in my natural element, and beginning to feel the stirring of old emotions.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He had lived life, and seen things, and performed that prodigy of prodigies, namely, the turning of his back upon his own people, and, in so far as it was possible for an Indian, becoming a white man even in his mental processes.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
It was in a village at the Great Slave Lake, that, in the course of resenting the evil of the hands of the man-animals, he came to modify the law that he had learned from Grey Beaver: namely, that the unpardonable crime was to bite one of the gods.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
