ARTIFICIALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does artificially mean? 

• ARTIFICIALLY (adverb)
  The adverb ARTIFICIALLY has 1 sense:

1. not according to nature; not by natural means

  Familiarity information: ARTIFICIALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTIFICIALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not according to nature; not by natural means

Synonyms:

artificially; by artificial means; unnaturally

Context example:

artificially induced conditions

Antonym:

naturally (according to nature; by natural means; without artificial help)

Pertainym:

artificial (contrived by art rather than nature)

 Context examples 

A gene that has been artificially altered in sequence or structure.

(Engineered Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

They have been artificially conserved by those strange accidental conditions.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The study of the neoplastic process by studying artificially produced tumors.

(Experimental Pathology, Tumors, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers found that overexpressing ΔFosB artificially mimicked the effects of repeated cocaine exposure, reducing both G9a expression in the nucleus accumbens and levels of histone methylation.

(What Causes Cocaine Addiction, NIH, US)

To learn more, scientists artificially bred 13 generations of wild fruit flies to produce flies that were either long sleepers (sleeping 18 hours each day) or short sleepers (sleeping three hours each day).

(Researchers explore complex genetic network behind sleep duration, National Institutes of Health)

These cells stimulated freezing behavior when artificially activated by light, but did not fire during natural memory recall.

(New Study Challenges Assumptions about How Memories Are Made, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The team’s predictions were consistent with independent experimental results using healthy, artificially modified, and infected human red blood cells.

(How the spleen keeps blood healthy, NIH)

The artificially trapped charged particles remained in significant numbers for weeks, and in one case, years.

(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)

It is not well understood why drinking artificially sweetened beverages compared to drinking water may increase obesity risk.

(Drinking diet beverages during pregnancy linked to child obesity, NIH)

Now the researchers artificially increased the number of electrons in the materials and were able to inject a pure spin current into them using a technique called spin pumping.

(Certain organic semiconducting materials can transport spin faster than they conduct charge, University of Cambridge)