EVENTUALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eventually mean? 

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

1. after an unspecified period of time or an especially long delay

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVENTUALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

After an unspecified period of time or an especially long delay

Synonyms:

eventually; finally

Pertainym:

eventual (expected to follow in the indefinite future from causes already operating)

 Context examples 

That material could eventually form into planets, the researchers found, over the course of hundreds of millions of years.

(Thousands of Planets Could Be Orbiting around Black Holes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In our atmosphere, small water clusters form and subsequently freeze, seeding larger crystals and eventually clouds.

(Scientists probe the limits of ice, National Science Foundation)

Eventually, they hope to turn it into a simple device that patients can use at home to monitor their health.

(Engineers create a simple test that can measure stress, National Science Foundation)

By preventing the synthesis of 1,3-beta-D-glucan, the cell wall is weakened which leads to osmotic lysis and eventually fungal cell death.

(Micafungin Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

The ongoing examination of Bennu - and its sample that will eventually be returned to Earth - could potentially shed light on why this intriguing phenomenon is occurring.

(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)

This leads to leakage of important intracellular components, cell rupture, and eventually cell death.

(amphotericin B, NCI Thesaurus)

Eventually, you lose your strength and cannot move.

(Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Potent neurotoxin that causes release and eventually depletion of serotonin in the CNS.

(Parachloroamphetamine, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

This may inhibit angiogenesis and may eventually lead to an inhibition of tumor cell proliferation.

(Anti-ANG2 Monoclonal Antibody MEDI-3617, NCI Thesaurus)

This may trigger antitumoral antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) and may eventually lead to cell lysis in CD38-expressing tumor cells.

(Anti-CD38 Monoclonal Antibody MOR03087, NCI Thesaurus)