terminally
English
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[edit]terminally (comparative more terminally, superlative most terminally)
- In a terminal manner.
- Leading to death; lasting until death.
- terminally ill
- 2009, Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, It's Not Me, It's You: Subjective Recollections from a Terminally Optimistic, Chronically Sarcastic, and Occasionally Inebriated Woman[1]:
- (military, of missile guidance) To the target.
- terminally guided
- Located at the end.
- 1919, Robert Ridgway, Herbert Friedmann, The Birds of North and Middle America, Part 8, Issue 1919, page 276:
- […] some of the feathers (especially posterior scapulars) with the broad edgings more rufescent and passing into whitish terminally; […]
- 2005, Terence Cosgrove, Colloid Science: Principles, methods and applications[2], page 119:
- In its simplest form this approach uses a lattice with a single chain terminally attached to the interface.