CRUCIALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crucially mean? 

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

1. to a crucial degree

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRUCIALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a crucial degree

Context example:

crucially, he must meet us at the airport

Pertainym:

crucial (of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis)

 Context examples 

Crucially, the pattern of flow across the two dunes was observed to be different: the flow is deflected by the front dune, generating ‘swirls’ on the back dune and pushing it away.

(Sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other, University of Cambridge)

And, crucially, they use a similar prefrontal control mechanism as we do.

(Selective amnesia: how rats and humans are able to actively forget distracting memories, University of Cambridge)

And crucially, they have also identified a simple solution to stop it, which most of us already have in our kitchens.

(What causes the sound of a dripping tap – and how do you stop it?, University of Cambridge)

Last year, we showed that those degraded reefs sound quieter and different than healthy reefs; crucially, we also showed with field experiments that the sounds of degraded reefs are less attractive to young fish than are the sounds of healthy reefs, Radford says.

(Loudspeakers used to attract fish back to dying coral reefs, SciDev.Net)