See Also: Proximate(medicine)
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proximate (iou)



proximate adjective. L16.
[Latin proximatus pa. pple of proximare, from proximus nearest: see -ATE2.]
Next before or after, nearest, (in space, serial order, a chain of causation, a train of thought, quality, time, etc.); immediately adjacent, immediate. L16.
Nearly accurate or correct; approximate. L18.
Chemistry. Designating or involving those components of a substance identifiable or separable by an initial or relatively crude procedure. Freq. in proximate analysis. E19.
proximately adverb L16.
proximateness noun L19.
proxi'mation noun approximation M20.
proxime adjective = PROXIMATE adjective 1 M17-M19.