Associations to the word «Proximate»
Noun
Adverb
Wiktionary
PROXIMATE, adjective. Close or closest; adjacent.
PROXIMATE, adjective. (legal) Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation.
PROXIMATE, adjective. About to take place; impending.
PROXIMATE, noun. (linguistics) A grammatical marker in the Algonquian (and some other) languages for a principal third person
PROXIMATE CAUSE, noun. (legal) An event which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces an injury, and without which the injury would not have occurred.
PROXIMATE CAUSES, noun. Plural of proximate cause
PROXIMATE PRINCIPLE, noun. (biochemistry) (archaic) Any of a class of substances found ready-formed in animal and vegetable tissues, and separable by chemical analysis, such as albumin, sugar, collagen, fat, etc.
Dictionary definition
PROXIMATE, adjective. Closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects; "news of his proximate arrival"; "interest in proximate rather than ultimate goals".
PROXIMATE, adjective. Very close in space or time; "proximate words"; "proximate houses".
Wise words
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