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 Dictionary entry overview: What does initially mean? 

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

1. at the beginning

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INITIALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At the beginning

Synonyms:

ab initio; initially

Context example:

at first he didn't notice anything strange

Pertainym:

initial (occurring at the beginning)

 Context examples 

Changes in chromatin structure or changes in synaptic structure induced initially by delta-FosB may persist long after delta-FosB is no longer present, allowing behavioral changes to persist.

(FosB Drug-induction Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The newly formed Tongan island, unofficially known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai after its neighbors, was initially projected to last a few months.

(NASA Shows New Tongan Island Made of Tuff Stuff, Likely to Persist Years, NASA)

A disease of bone that initially results in the excessive resorption of bone (by osteoclasts) followed by the replacement of normal bone marrow with vascular and fibrous tissue.

(Bone Paget Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists have not determined how these particular scarps initially form.

(Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried Ice, NASA)

Scientists initially proposed that the object was an old star surrounded by a surprising cloud typical of the kind that usually accompanies young stars.

(NASA Team Probes Peculiar Age-Defying Star, NASA)

A 6 kD polypeptide growth factor initially discovered in mouse submaxillary glands.

(Epidermal growth factor, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The OSIRIS-REx team initially spotted the particle plumes in images while the spacecraft was orbiting Bennu at a distance of about one mile (1.61 kilometers).

(NASA Mission Reveals Asteroid Has Big Surprises, NASA)

Anonymised data and samples are initially single or double coded but the link between the subjects identifiers and the unique code(s) are subsequently deleted.

(Anonymised Genomic Data and Samples, NCI Thesaurus)

Asteroid 2004 BL86 was initially discovered on Jan. 30, 2004 by a telescope of the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) survey in White Sands, New Mexico.

(Asteroid to Fly By Earth on January 26, NASA)

It was initially isolated as 2.2 kb vascular anticoagulant-beta transcript from human placenta, a Ca (2+) dependent phospholipid binding protein that inhibits coagulation and phospholipase A2 activity.

(Annexin A8, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)