RHYTHMICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rhythmically mean? 

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

1. in a rhythmic manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHYTHMICALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a rhythmic manner

Context example:

the chair rocked rhythmically back and forth

Pertainym:

rhythmical (recurring with measured regularity)

 Context examples 

Changing salt intake affected levels of both aldosterone and glucocorticoids, the hormones found to rhythmically control the body’s salt and water balance.

(How the body regulates salt levels, NIH)

Some single-celled creatures have structures called motile cilia that beat rhythmically to allow the cells to move.

(Protein critical to cilia development, NIH)

A succession of heaves from the back of the crowd had sent a series of long ripples running through it, all the heads swaying rhythmically in the one direction like a wheatfield in a squall.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)