UNDERWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does underway mean? 

• UNDERWAY (adjective)
  The adjective UNDERWAY has 1 sense:

1. currently in progress

  Familiarity information: UNDERWAY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDERWAY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Currently in progress

Synonyms:

afoot; underway

Context example:

preparations for the trial are underway

Similar:

current (occurring in or belonging to the present time)

 Context examples 

Studies are underway to determine the safety and usefulness of many CAM practices.

(Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)

The findings suggest that significant transformations of Antarctic ecosystems are underway now and will continue to be affected by future climate events.

(Extreme melt season leads to decade-long ecosystem changes in Antarctica's Dry Valleys, National Science Foundation)

In nearby Hiko, a "Storm Area 51 Basecamp Experience" was underway with music and other entertainment.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)

Research is currently underway to manipulate this relationship by altering the host environment in ways that silence or inhibit pro-survival signals concurrent with standard therapies.

(Cell Microenvironment, NCI Thesaurus)

Studies are underway of the health impacts of the Gulf oil spill.

(Oil Spills, NIH)

Several projects are now underway to characterize the human proteome.

(Revealing the human proteome, NIH)

After a more than nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to Pluto, it’s show time for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, as the flyby sequence of science observations is officially underway.

(A “Heart” from Pluto as Flyby Begins, NASA)

The present-day thinning and retreat of Pine Island Glacier, one of the largest and fastest shrinking glaciers of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, may have already been underway as early as the 1940s, according to findings from an international research team led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

(West Antarctica's largest glacier may have started retreating as early as the 1940s, NSF)

The findings in this latest report suggest all of the fresh-appearing gullies seen on Mars can be attributed to processes currently underway, whereas earlier hypotheses suggested they formed thousands to millions of years ago when climate conditions were possibly conducive to liquid water on Mars.

(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)