FUNDAMENTALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fundamentally mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUNDAMENTALLY (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:

fundamental (being or involving basic facts or principles)

 Context examples 

As far our brain is concerned, talking to ourselves in our heads may be fundamentally the same as speaking our thoughts out loud, new research shows.

(Talking to Ourselves And Voices in Our Heads, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The effects are tiny on human timescales, but given long enough, atmospheric escape can fundamentally alter a planet's fate.

(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)

Plants and forests draw water out of the soil and exhale it into the atmosphere, impacting the balance of water and heat at our planet's surface, which fundamentally controls the weather.

(How trees affect the weather, National Science Foundation)

“This finding suggests that speech and music may have fundamentally changed the way our brain processes pitch,” said Dr. Conway.

(Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch, National Institutes of Health)

The team intends to design the memory device to operate using fundamentally different principles than those used in current computers.

(Neuromorphic Metallic Nanowire Network Shows Human Brain-Like Functions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Fundamentally distinct from antibodies, aptamers mimic their properties and have emerged as a promising class of molecules in both therapeutic and diagnostic formats.

(Aptamer, NCI Thesaurus)

Such a basis fundamentally limits the size of spectrometers in respect: they are usually bulky and complex, and challenging to shrink to sizes much smaller than a coin.

(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)

The amount of heating and cooling required in buildings is fundamentally related to the properties of the materials they are made from, particularly how much heat they conduct and store.

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

Under her purity, and saintliness, and culture, and ethereal beauty of soul, she was, in things fundamentally human, just like Lizzie Connolly and all Lizzie Connollys.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As with glycosylated endogenous proteins, glycosylation of recombinant proteins may fundamentally affect their biological activity, function, clearance from circulation, and antigenicity; glycosylation of recombinant proteins that are chemically idenitical to or similar to endogenous proteins may render protein structures and biological activities that are more similar to those of glycosylated endogenous proteins.

(Glycosylated Recombinant Human Interleukin-7, NCI Thesaurus)