CONTRIBUTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contributing mean? 

• CONTRIBUTING (adjective)
  The adjective CONTRIBUTING has 1 sense:

1. tending to bring about; being partly responsible for

  Familiarity information: CONTRIBUTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTRIBUTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tending to bring about; being partly responsible for

Synonyms:

conducive; contributing; contributive; contributory; tributary

Context example:

a contributory factor

Similar:

causative (producing an effect)

 Context examples 

However, they can also remove healthy cells, contributing to vision loss.

(Immune cells in the retina can spontaneously regenerate, National Institutes of Health)

The gut microbiome plays a vital role in a baby's early development, with healthy gut microbes contributing to healthy growth, immune function, and bone and brain development.

(Human Gut Microbe Could Make Processed Foods Healthier, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The person is responsible for contributing expert advice on the scientific design and on the conduct of the research regarding the investigational agent.

(Agent Expert, NCI Thesaurus)

The act of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort.

(Assistance, NCI Thesaurus)

The disease is contributing to the Earth’s sixth mass extinction, the report states, with the findings placing it among the world’s most destructive invasive species.

(Deadly fungal disease ‘caused greatest biodiversity loss ever recorded’, SciDev.Net)

The scientists found that not only did storms' holding capacity for water vapor increase because of climate change; storms are indeed getting stronger and contributing to higher rainfall rates.

(Why are big storms bringing so much more rain?, National Science Foundation)

By the end of the century, the island could lose 4.5% of its ice, contributing up to 13 inches of sea level rise.

(New research shows an iceless Greenland may be in the future, National Science Foundation)

Determined not to quit Marianne, though hopeless of contributing, at present, to her ease, she hurried away to excuse herself from attending Mrs. Jennings, on account of her sister being indisposed.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The research raises the possibility of quats contributing to human infertility, which has been on the rise in recent decades.

(Common Household Chemicals Lead to Birth Defects in Mice, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A measurement of the proteins contributing to the beta fraction in a biological specimen.

(Beta Globulin Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)