CONVENTIONALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conventionally mean? 

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

1. in a conventional manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVENTIONALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a conventional manner

Context example:

he usually behaves rather conventionally

Antonym:

unconventionally (in an unconventional manner)

Pertainym:

conventional (following accepted customs and proprieties)

 Context examples 

I should, if I had deliberated, have replied to this question by something conventionally vague and polite; but the answer somehow slipped from my tongue before I was aware—"No, sir."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A fetus that does not grow beyond the 10th percentile of conventionally accepted weight for gestational age.

(Fetal Growth Retardation, NCI Thesaurus)

Rice grown under high carbon dioxide conditions had, on average, from 13 to 30 percent lower levels of four B vitamins, 10 percent less protein, 8 percent less iron and 5 percent less zinc than conventionally grown rice.

(Planet-Warming Gases Make Some Food Less Nutritious, Study Says, Steve Baragona/VOA)

Porosity, the void space in rock, was conventionally thought to be produced when water flows through rock, resulting in minerals that chemically dissolve.

(Study explores how rock expands near soil surface in Sierra Nevada, National Science Foundation)

Although EGF receptors are conventionally regarded as upstream activators of RAS proteins, they can also act as RAS signal transducers via RAS-induced autocrine activation of the EGFR family ligands.

(Pancreatic Cancer Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

The team also studied conventionally raised mice given a potent antibiotic cocktail in their drinking water beginning 3 weeks prior to the experiments.

(Gut microbes may affect cancer treatment, NIH)

Gosvami tells that much more work needs to be done to prove that the new method is superior to widely accepted methods of imparting corrosion resistance to steel such as galvanising with zinc or coating with conventionally used epoxy-based paints.

(Mango leaf extract can stop ships from rusting, SciDev.Net)