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coassist en · VERB

Etymology

From co- + assist.

Meanings

1. To jointly assist or to provide an additional source of assistance.
   • Now, the reason that a falling body moves faster at the end than at the beginning of the fall is that "since it is accelerated in the beginning, it acquires such an impetus and this impetus coassists in producting motion. 2013, Peter Damerow, Gideon Freudenthal, Peter McLaughlin, Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics, →ISBN, page 23:
   • It is a very modern technique coassisted by optical microscopy, which enables one to choose surface structures without specimen sampling, on very limited areas. 2018, Andrei Victor Sandu, Modern Technologies of Thin Films Deposition: Chemical Phosphatation, →ISBN:
   • When, by means of this Plaister, (or some other of equal Virtues, Properties, and Power) coassisted with the Internals above-directed, the Lividness, Hardness, and Sponginess of the circumambient Flesh are resolv'd, reprov'd, and dissipated, and the Flesh restor'd to its natural Colour and Condition; it will then be time to introduce cicatrizing, healing Medicines:And over such, (in place of the above-describ'd) the followin Plaister may be very good, as it is warm and defensive: 1741, Charles Perry, T. Woodward, C. Davis, A treatise of diseases in general, pages 137–138:

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