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OPPOSITELY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does oppositely mean?
• OPPOSITELY (adverb)
The adverb OPPOSITELY has 1 sense:
1. in an opposite position
Familiarity information: OPPOSITELY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an opposite position
Pertainym:
opposite (being directly across from each other; facing)
Context examples
A set of three pairs of oppositely charged rods that are used in a mass spectrometer to filter out ions by focusing them in the center of the set of poles so that the radio frequency wave passed along the rods can propagate the ions from one end of the rods to the other.
(Hexapole, NCI Thesaurus)
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