AT PRESENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does at present mean? 

• AT PRESENT (adverb)
  The adverb AT PRESENT has 1 sense:

1. at the present moment

  Familiarity information: AT PRESENT used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AT PRESENT (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At the present moment

Synonyms:

at present; now

Context example:

it could happen any time now

 Context examples 

At present we know nothing of them, and are not in a situation to judge how much reality there may be in them.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My dear, I must stop here at present, I feel so miserable, though I am so happy.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was all right: at present I decidedly preferred these fierce favours to anything more tender.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was very much obliged to him, but declined it all, repeating her conviction, that the rain would come to nothing at present, and adding, I am only waiting for Mr Elliot.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The behavior of the audience at present was good-humored, but mischievous.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But whether the sorrow was too vast to be embodied in music, or music too ethereal to uplift a mortal woe, he soon discovered that the Requiem was beyond him just at present.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At present it is almost impossible to eliminate it, said Dr. Trindade.

(Aedes mosquitoes almost impossible to eradicate, says Brazilian researcher, Agência Brasil)

At present, products such as laminated bamboo are most commonly used as flooring materials due to their hardness and durability.

(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)

The membrane may even be present in previously discovered members of the scansoriopterygids, though at present it is believed the other members had more bird-like wings.

(Second Bat-Like Dinosaur Discovered in China, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Spintronics could therefore give us faster, energy-efficient computers, capable of performing more complex operations than at present.

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