Imbricately

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In an imbricate manner.

    "The area of each specimen was lased imbricately twice with a uniformly slow speed at a 90-degree angle to the surface and at a distance of 1 mm."

Example

More examples

"The area of each specimen was lased imbricately twice with a uniformly slow speed at a 90-degree angle to the surface and at a distance of 1 mm."

Etymology

From imbricate + -ly.

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