IN-SITU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in-situ mean? 

• IN-SITU (adjective)
  The adjective IN-SITU has 1 sense:

1. being in the original position; not having been moved

  Familiarity information: IN-SITU used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN-SITU (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being in the original position; not having been moved

Synonyms:

in-situ; in situ; unmoved

Context example:

an in-situ investigator

Similar:

unaltered; unchanged (remaining in an original state)

 Context examples 

This process would give lunar settlers access to oxygen for fuel and life support, as well as a wide range of metal alloys for in-situ manufacturing.

(Scientists Find Way to Extract Oxygen from Moon Dirt, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In the 1990s, the ESA/NASA Ulysses mission made the first in-situ observations of this material, which were later confirmed by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.

(Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust, NASA)