provisionally
advEtymology From provisional + -ly.
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In a provisional way; temporarily.
- Before the discovery and confirmation of the existence of rhenium predicted by Mendeleev's periodic law, rhenium was provisionally termed dvi-manganese because of its expected resemblance to manganese.2001 April 16, J. Michael Davis, “Manganese and Rhenium”, in Patty's Toxicology, →DOI:
- Related terms
- improvisationally