Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Direct or immediate.
- adjective Very near or next, as in space, time, or order. synonym: close.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Next; immediate; without the intervention of a third.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Nearest; next immediately preceding or following.
- adjective (Chem.) an analysis which determines the proximate principles of any substance, as contrasted with an
ultimate analysis . - adjective That which in ordinary natural sequence produces a specific result, no independent disturbing agencies intervening.
- adjective (Physiol. Chem.) one of a class of bodies existing ready formed in animal and vegetable tissues, and separable by chemical analysis, as albumin, sugar, collagen, fat, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Close orclosest ;adjacent . - adjective law Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation.
- adjective About to take place;
impending . - noun linguistics A
grammatical marker in theAlgonquian (and some other)languages for aprincipal third person
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective very close in space or time
- adjective closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects
Etymologies
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Examples
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It also leverages a neighbourhood network of service representatives to sign up and assist (new) customers, which in turn supports what we term proximate usage - where it's not necessary to know how to do everything yourself if there's someone nearby who can take care of it for you.
Allison Mooney: Why Clunky is OK: The Building Blocks of Technological Adoption 2009
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The children in proximate zoned schools, she insists, “are the same kids we have.”
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What you describe as proximate causes is what I prefer to call predictable, verifiable observations.
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˜p™; and a secondary sense in which it stands for a short term proximate propensity [dispositional] to say ˜p™.
Wilfrid Sellars Rosenberg, Jay 2009
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If I’m pretty confident that neither I nor most of my friends are in proximate danger of getting shipped off to Iraq, is the war’s ballooning cost the only rational grounds for my opposition to it?
“Irrational” Values 2007
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“What shall we do with him?” called the proximate lictor.
CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010
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As near as I can figure, the Democrats were to use a legal term the proximate cause of the situation.
Subprime financial crisis | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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As near as I can figure, the Democrats were to use a legal term the proximate cause of the situation.
Subprime financial crisis | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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This position, which might be called proximate consequentialism, makes it much easier for agents and observers to justify moral judgments of acts because it obviates the need to predict non-proximate consequences in distant times and places.
Consequentialism Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter 2006
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Then it must be borne in mind that the cooperation may be described as proximate or remote in proportion to the closeness of relation between the action of the principal and that of his helper.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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