RESPECTIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does respectively mean? 

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

1. in the order given

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESPECTIVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the order given

Synonyms:

respectively; severally

Context example:

the brothers were called Felix and Max, respectively

Pertainym:

respective (considered individually)

 Context examples 

Mice treated with ASO1 and ASO2 both lived longer than untreated mice, by 61% (274 days versus 170 days) and 76% (300 days versus 170 days), respectively.

(Experimental treatment slows prion disease, extends life of mice, National Institutes of Health)

Low and intermediate antibody responses to 1 and 10 g BSA, respectively.

(A28807, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Average daily consumption of sugary drinks was greater in men than in women (90.3 mL v 74.6 mL, respectively).

(Possible link found between sugary drinks, cancer, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The two outer planets are about the mass of Saturn, while the two inner planets are respectively around one and 10 times the mass of Jupiter.

(Giant planets around young star raise questions about how planets form, University of Cambridge)

But at the same time, they found a reduction in the diversity of plants and ants in the same period, by 27 per cent and 35 per cent respectively.

(Fire control harms biodiversity in Brazilian savannah, SciDev.Net)

Participants in the small-change and large-change groups lost an average of 1.2 and 5.2 pounds, respectively.

(Strategies successfully reduce weight gain in young adults, NIH)

The STAM/AMSH complex may signal MYC induction and cell cycle progression downstream of JAK3 and JAK2 after IL2 or GMCSF stimulation, respectively.

(AMSH Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

CD80 and CD40 bind to T cell proteins (CD28 and CD40L, respectively) to provide costimulatory signals in the B cell-T cell interaction required for B cell activation.

(B Lymphocyte Cell Surface Molecule Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

EXAMPLE(S): EXAMPLE(S):A PlannedActivity might have a repeatQuantity of 4 which would result in 4 ScheduledActivity and PerformedActivity with repetitionNumbers of 1, 2, 3, and 4 respectively.

(Performed Activity Repetition Number, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Upon platelet activation these proteins undergo further processing into beta thromboglobulin (Beta-TG) and neutrophil-activating peptide 2 (NAP2), respectively.

(Platelet Basic Protein, NCI Thesaurus)