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translatively en · ADV

Etymology

From translative + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In a translative manner.
    • "To move in a sphere" is the peculiar privilege of gold and silver fish; and is, translatively, the most absurd of all those absurd expressions to which illiterate and unreflecting fashion has given currency. 1846, “Edmund Burke”, in Douglas William Jerrold, editor, Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, volume 4, page 45:
    • We do not shift the particles translatively because it can lead to unwanted behaviours. The MHT hypotheses are shifted translatively and rotatory according to their deltas. 2007, Gerhard Lakemeyer, RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, page 178:
    • Only uppercase W can be formed by the reflexively or translatively symmetrical doubling of a grapheme, namely V. 1994, Světla Čmejrková, Writing Vs Speaking: Language, Text, Discourse, Communication: Proceedings of the Conference Held at the Czech Language Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, October 14-16, 1992, page 105: