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AFOREMENTIONED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does aforementioned mean?
• AFOREMENTIONED (adjective)
The adjective AFOREMENTIONED has 1 sense:
1. being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
Familiarity information: AFOREMENTIONED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
Synonyms:
aforementioned; aforesaid; said
Context example:
said party has denied the charges
Similar:
same (same in identity)
Context examples
The scientists were also able to create a more complex circuit of four sources – and all of them turned out to be “nearly identical” thanks to the aforementioned entanglement.
(Scientists ‘Teleport’ Data between Chips for First Time, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
These include reactions with the aforementioned nitrogen oxides, water vapor and ozone.
(Greenhouse Gas ‘Detergent’ Recycles Itself in Atmosphere, NASA)
Second, the implantation of the hydrogel after it had previously been in culture with patients’ chondrocytes for 21 days showed that, when taken from the mice, the chondrocytes continued maintaining their viability, proliferating, and expressing chondrogenesis genes, producing the matrix typical of the aforementioned cartilage.
(Scientists design a new hydrogel that helps regenerate cartilage, University of Granada)
The researchers also observed high concentrations of PBs (greater than 100ng/g) in several items, such as the protective eye covers used when administering phototherapy to the baby, the aforementioned patterned transparent film dressings (surgical tape), intravenous catheters, and the intravenous infusion extension kit.
(Babies in neonatal intensive care units are exposed to harmful chemical substances found in plastic, University of Granada)
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