Crossword clues for proximate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Analysis \A*nal"y*sis\, n.; pl. Analyses. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to unloose, to dissolve, to resolve into its elements; ? up + ? to loose. See Loose.]
A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis.
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(Chem.) The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either
what elements it contains, or
how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis.
(Logic) The tracing of things to their source, and the resolving of knowledge into its original principles.
(Math.) The resolving of problems by reducing the conditions that are in them to equations.
A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order.
A brief, methodical illustration of the principles of a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with synopsis.
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(Nat. Hist.) The process of ascertaining the name of a species, or its place in a system of classification, by means of an analytical table or key.
Ultimate, Proximate, Qualitative, Quantitative, and Volumetric analysis. (Chem.) See under Ultimate, Proximate, Qualitative, etc.
Proximate \Prox"i*mate\, a. [L. proximatus, p. p. of proximare to come near, to approach, fr. proximus the nearest, nest, superl. of propior nearer, and prope, adv., near.] Nearest; next immediately preceding or following. ``Proximate ancestors.'' --J. S. Harford. The proximate natural causes of it [the deluge]. --T. Burnet. Proximate analysis (Chem.), an analysis which determines the proximate principles of any substance, as contrasted with an ultimate analysis. Proximate cause.
A cause which immediately precedes and produces the effect, as distinguished from the remote, mediate, or predisposing cause.
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That which in ordinary natural sequence produces a specific result, no independent disturbing agencies intervening.
Proximate principle (Physiol. Chem.), one of a class of bodies existing ready formed in animal and vegetable tissues, and separable by chemical analysis, as albumin, sugar, collagen, fat, etc.
Syn: Nearest; next; closest; immediate; direct.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"neighboring," 1590s (implied in proximately), from Late Latin proximatus, past participle of proximare "to draw near," from proximus "nearest, next" (see proximity).
Wiktionary
a. 1 close or closest; adjacent. 2 (context legal English) Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation. 3 About to take place; impending. n. (context linguistics English) A grammatical marker in the Algonquian (and some other) languages for a principal third person
WordNet
adj. closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects; "news of his proximate arrival"; "interest in proximate rather than ultimate goals" [ant: ultimate]
very close in space or time; "proximate words"; "proximate houses"
Wikipedia
Proximates are used in the analysis of biological materials as a decomposition of a human-consumable good into its major constituents. They are a good approximation of the contents of packaged comestible goods and serve as a cheap and easy verification of nutritional panels i.e. testing can be used to verify lots, but can not be used to validate a food processor or food processing facility: a nutritional assay must be conducted on the product to qualify said producers. Nutritional panels in the United States are regulated by the FDA and must undergo rigorous testing to ensure the exact and precise content of nutrients in order to prevent a food processor from making unfounded claims to the public.
From an industry standard proximates include five constituents:
- Ash
- Moisture
- Proteins
- Fat
- Carbohydrates (Calculation)
Analytically, four of the five constituents are obtained via chemical reactions and experiments. The fifth constituent, carbohydrates, is a calculation based on the determination of the four others. Proximates should nearly always add up to 100%, any deviation from 100% displays the resolution of the chemical test i.e. small variations in the way each test is performed chemist to chemist will accumulate or overlap the composition make-up.
There are additional ingredients that may fall under the category of one of the five constituents. Carbohydrates for example include but are not limited to:
- Dietary Fibers
- Sugars
- Sugar Alcohol
Whereas Ash includes but is not limited to:
- Dietary Minerals (Sodium, Potassium, Iron, Calcium)
- Vitamins (β-Carotene, Retinol, Vitamin D Vitamin D, B Vitamins)
Although proximates do not give the entire nutritional assay, they are an inexpensive way to track deviations from the quality of foods.
Usage examples of "proximate".
Stages The Extractor, in position at destination, analyzes, selects and draws substance from proximate asteroids, comets, satellites, planetoids, swarms, star surface and other accessible bodies and strata, reduces the substance to spunnel-teleportable constituents, loads the mass into the spunnel facility and dispatches the product.
A second window displayed the code of the originating phone, and the location-Sector 9, proximate to the border with the Passaic metroplex and immediately adjacent to Sector 20.
Sir Willoughby severely reprehended his short-sightedness for seeing but the one proximate object in the particular attention he had bestowed on Miss Dale.
In this small reduction in length of the pulvinus of the rudimentary leaflets of Desmodium, we apparently have the proximate cause of their great and rapid circumnutating movement, in contrast with that of the almost rudimentary leaflets of the Mimosa.
Not to the rolling hills of Virginia or the space centers of Houston or Canaveral, nor to the glamour of Los Angeles nor the perpetual nightlife of New York, but to a simple two-bedroom condo in northwest San Francisco, proximate not to power brokers and politicos but to panhandlers, prostitutes, tourists, illegal immigrants, and the best Chinese food in North America.
Dismissing the observed proximate beings as a negligible distraction to be briskly dealt with, that which had sluggishly begun to stir moved on to more consequential activities.
Hence the next four chapters will explore how the ultimate cause of food production led to the proximate causes of germs, literacy, technology, and centralized government.
When I have to sign his death certificate—something I’m pretty sure I’m going to have to handle in the next few hours—the proximate cause of death will be heart failure secondary to cerebellar dysfunction.
Subsequent events had precipitated a sequence of scarcely credible concurrences culminating in the arrival proximate to the minor satellite of Treetrunk of the most powerful expeditionary force this sector of starfield had ever seen.
Bradford speaks only of Billington and his family as those "shuffled into their company," and while he was not improbably one of the agitators (with Hopkins) who were the proximate causes of the drawing up of the Compact, he was not, in this case, the responsible leader.
But we may go further: swallowing arsenic is not really the proximate cause of death, since a man might be shot through the head immediately after taking the dose, and then it would not be of arsenic that he would die.
Joe just seemed to have a general-ized circulatory failure, from no proximate cause at all.
Thus, food production, and competition and diffusion between societies, led as ultimate causes, via chains of causation that differed in detail but that all involved large dense populations and sedentary living, to the proximate agents of conquest: germs, writing, technology, and centralized political organization.
Thus, pizarro's capture of Atahuallpa illustrates the set of proximate factors that resulted in Europeans' colonizing the New World instead of Native Americans' colonizing Europe.
Physiology and molecular biology can do no more than identify proximate mechanisms.