provisionally

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provisionally

adverb more provisionally · most provisionally

  1. In a provisional way; temporarily. Before the discovery and confirmation of the existence of rhenium predicted by Mendeleev's periodic law, rhenium was provisionally termed dvi-manganese because of its expected resemblance to manganese.

    Opposite: unprovisionally

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adv in a provisional way

Españolprovisionalmente, provisoriamente
Françaisprovisoirement
Deutschvorläufig, provisorisch
Italianoprovvisoriamente
Русскийпредварительно predvaritelʹno

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@misc{provisionally_2026,
  title = {provisionally},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/provisionally},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}