Provisionally

adv

adv ·5 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a provisional way; temporarily.

    "Before the discovery and confirmation of the existence of rhenium predicted by Mendeleev's periodic law, rhenium was provisionally termed dvi-manganese because of its expected resemblance to manganese."

Adverb
  1. 1
    temporarily and conditionally wordnet

Example

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"Makemake has a moon, discovered in 2015, which was provisionally designated as S/2015 (136472) 1."

Etymology

From provisional + -ly.

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