ATYPICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does atypically mean? 

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

1. in a manner that is not typical

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATYPICALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a manner that is not typical

Synonyms:

atypically; untypically

Context example:

she was atypically quiet

Antonym:

typically (in a typical manner)

Pertainym:

atypical (not representative of a group, class, or type)

 Context examples 

An electrocardiographic finding of supraventricular tachycardia involving the sinus node in which a patient has an atypically high heart rate which cannot be explained by factors such as fever, exercise, hypovolemia, etc.

(Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

Even though some cortex areas turned out to be atypically located in a small minority of subjects, the data-derived algorithms incorporated into the software were able to successfully map them.

(Connectome map more than doubles human cortex’s known regions, NIH)