About The Word Proximate
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Proximate
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What's The Definition Of Proximate?
[adj] very close in space or time; "proximate words"; "proximate houses"
[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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Proximate: close | immediate Related Terms | Find terms related to Proximate: See Also | Proximate In Webster's Dictionary \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) A cause which immediately precedes and produces the
effect, as distinguished from the remote, mediate, or
predisposing cause. --I. Watts.
(b) 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.
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