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单词 proximate
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Definition of proximate in English:

proximate

adjective ˈprɒksɪmətˈprɑksəmət
  • 1(especially of the cause of something) closest in relationship; immediate.

    the fact that a storm may show up the poor condition of a flat roof does not signify that storm was the proximate cause of damage to it
    Example sentencesExamples
    • So, its causal relationship with the primary negligence is very proximate and most immediate, in our submission.
    • In theatre your contact with your audience is immediate and proximate.
    • For a moment let us observe that instrumental music, when used in the public worship service, is for the immediate and proximate accompaniment of congregational singing.
    • A duty of care will exist where there is a proximate relationship between the injured person and a person or an entity that should have foreseen the reasonable possibility of injury.
    • One of the most useful distinctions to be drawn between the various causes of war is between ‘immediate’, proximate causes and ‘underlying’, more fundamental causes.
    Synonyms
    nearest, near, close, closest, next-door
    1. 1.1 Closest in space or time.
      the failure of the proximate military power to lend assistance
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The trailing end has a height greater than the maximum height of the disc space forming a flanged portion adapted to overlie a part of the anterior aspects of the vertebral bodies adjacent and proximate the disc space to be fused.
      • All of the men we interviewed lived in areas that are proximate to the U.S., with regular access to American media (TV, radio, magazines).
      • In each of 8 areas downwind and proximate to closed nuclear power plants, infant deaths declined in excess of national trends during the first 2 yr following shutdown.
      • In that case a distance of one-and-a-half miles, which could have been covered in less than five minutes by car, was held to be sufficiently proximate to allow powers to prevent a breach of the peace to be used.
      • Japan's geostrategic location made it a vital link in a global chain of maritime power that depended critically on nuclear weapons to counter overwhelming Soviet proximate power in Europe.
      Synonyms
      near, adjacent, in close proximity, close at hand, near at hand
  • 2Nearly accurate; approximate.

    he would try to change her speech into proximate ladylikeness
    Synonyms
    adjoining, neighbouring, neighbouring on, next door to, abutting, close to, near to, next to, by, close by, by the side of, bordering, bordering on, beside, alongside, abreast of, contiguous with, proximate to, attached to, touching, joining

Derivatives

  • proximately

  • adverb ˈprɒksɪmətliˈprɑksəmətli
    • He declared his own position to be ‘Constructive Idealism,’ derived from Kantian Idealism (though more proximately from British Idealism, especially the work of T.H. Green).
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Our presuppositions, as Collingwood showed in The Idea of History, are proximately philosophical and ultimately theological.
      • For example, high parental care of male house finches is proximately linked to both elevated levels of prolactin (R. A. Duckworth et al. unpubl. manuscript), and a decreased level of testosterone.
      • While increased developmental instability may be proximately caused by external environment, the extent to which different traits respond to the environmental cues can have a genetic basis.
      • Where a disease of the assured actually causes the accident, it is held that the injury or death is proximately caused by the accident, not the disease, so that the exceptions clause does not operate and the insurer is liable.
  • proximation

  • noun
    • But first-timers would be better off hearing these songs in the context of their respective albums, where - in close proximation to music written in similar moods - they take on a different and richer hue.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin proximatus 'drawn near', past participle of proximare, from proximus 'nearest'.

Rhymes

approximate
 
 

Definition of proximate in US English:

proximate

adjectiveˈprɑksəmətˈpräksəmət
  • 1(especially of the cause of something) closest in relationship; immediate.

    that storm was the proximate cause of damage to it
    Example sentencesExamples
    • One of the most useful distinctions to be drawn between the various causes of war is between ‘immediate’, proximate causes and ‘underlying’, more fundamental causes.
    • In theatre your contact with your audience is immediate and proximate.
    • So, its causal relationship with the primary negligence is very proximate and most immediate, in our submission.
    • For a moment let us observe that instrumental music, when used in the public worship service, is for the immediate and proximate accompaniment of congregational singing.
    • A duty of care will exist where there is a proximate relationship between the injured person and a person or an entity that should have foreseen the reasonable possibility of injury.
    Synonyms
    nearest, near, close, closest, next-door
    1. 1.1 Closest in space or time.
      the failure of the proximate military power to lend assistance
      Example sentencesExamples
      • All of the men we interviewed lived in areas that are proximate to the U.S., with regular access to American media (TV, radio, magazines).
      • In each of 8 areas downwind and proximate to closed nuclear power plants, infant deaths declined in excess of national trends during the first 2 yr following shutdown.
      • Japan's geostrategic location made it a vital link in a global chain of maritime power that depended critically on nuclear weapons to counter overwhelming Soviet proximate power in Europe.
      • The trailing end has a height greater than the maximum height of the disc space forming a flanged portion adapted to overlie a part of the anterior aspects of the vertebral bodies adjacent and proximate the disc space to be fused.
      • In that case a distance of one-and-a-half miles, which could have been covered in less than five minutes by car, was held to be sufficiently proximate to allow powers to prevent a breach of the peace to be used.
      Synonyms
      near, adjacent, in close proximity, close at hand, near at hand
  • 2Nearly accurate; approximate.

    he would try to change her speech into proximate ladylikeness
    Synonyms
    adjoining, neighbouring, neighbouring on, next door to, abutting, close to, near to, next to, by, close by, by the side of, bordering, bordering on, beside, alongside, abreast of, contiguous with, proximate to, attached to, touching, joining

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin proximatus ‘drawn near’, past participle of proximare, from proximus ‘nearest’.

 
 
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