ESSENTIALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does essentially mean? 

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

1. in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESSENTIALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature

Synonyms:

basically; essentially; fundamentally

Context example:

for all his bluster he is in essence a shy person

Pertainym:

essential (basic and fundamental)

 Context examples 

During the study period, from 2008 to 2015, the sheet had essentially no change in its rate of ice discharge — ice flow into the ocean.

(New Study Brings Antarctic Ice Loss Into Sharper Focus, NASA)

Promising results finally came when the researchers added a third gas, essentially tweaking the flavors in the recipe for the first time.

(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)

Cycles of a fasting-mimicking diet and a normal diet essentially reprogrammed non-insulin-producing cells into insulin-producing cells.

(Fasting-Mimicking Diet May Reverse Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"You separate the charges and create electricity out of essentially nothing."

(Nanogenerator Creates Electricity from Snowfall, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Like a lot of moons in the solar system, including our own, Mimas always shows essentially the same face to its parent planet.

(Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean, NASA)

In the current work, the researchers used a neurotransmitter which acts as the ‘brake’ at the source of the seizure, essentially signalling to the neurons to stop firing and end the seizure.

(Electronic device implanted in the brain could stop seizures, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“Exercise during youth adds extra layers to the outer surface of a bone to essentially make the bone bigger,” Warden says.

(Physical Activity Brings Lasting Bone Benefits, NIH, US)

The inner shell is essentially an expanding shock wave, so it may be smashing into the dust grains and obliterating them, or producing an extra heating effect that evaporates the dust.

(The Strange Structures of the Saturn Nebula, ESO)

It is essentially a reversal of glycolysis with minor variations of alternative paths.

(Glycolysis/Gluconeogenesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Distinct from the channel opening induced by endogenous glutamate transmitter, ivermectin-activated channels open very slowly but essentially irreversibly.

(Ivermectin, NCI Thesaurus)