IN OTHER WORDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in other words mean? 

• IN OTHER WORDS (adverb)
  The adverb IN OTHER WORDS has 1 sense:

1. otherwise stated

  Familiarity information: IN OTHER WORDS used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN OTHER WORDS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Otherwise stated

Synonyms:

in other words; put differently

Context example:

in other words, we are broke

 Context examples 

In other words, when they spotted ripples in one area, then there was a good chance they would find them in the other.

(Our brains may ripple before remembering, National Institutes of Health)

In other words, Jupiter would bring you the most ideal apartment or house.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In other words, they actually slowed the melting down.

(Antarctica's Effect on Sea Level Rise in Coming Centuries, NASA)

In other words, hell on Earth was once very real – and it had some pretty severe consequences for a world-in-progress.

(Fiery Collisions That Gave Birth to Earth Could Have Evaporated 40% of Our World, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In other words, the atmosphere is warming as if it contained 21 percent more carbon dioxide than it does today.

(Warming due to carbon dioxide jumped by half in 25 years, NOAA)

Researchers also found that people with the highest amygdala activity, in other words those who were the most stressed out, had the highest levels of inflammatory markers in their blood.

(Biological Link Found Between Stress, Heart Disease, VOA)

In other words, one has to think in order to lie, which rises the temperature of the forehead; but at the same time we feel anxious, which lowers the temperature of the nose.

(The most reliable scientific model to date for detecting when a person is lying, based on thermography, University of Granada)

In other words, zinc shapes the properties of developing synapses via Shank proteins.

(Zinc Deficiency during Pregnancy Linked to Autism in Babies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In other words, the lowest levels of folate correlated with the highest risk of child obesity.

(Proper maternal folate level may reduce child obesity risk, NIH)

In other words the sets of individuals of a given kind have no overlap with any other kind.

(Kind, NCI Thesaurus)