MASSIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does massively mean? 

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

1. to a massive degree or in a massive manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MASSIVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a massive degree or in a massive manner

Context example:

tonight the haddock were shoaling massively in three hundred fathoms

Pertainym:

massive (imposing in size or bulk or solidity)

 Context examples 

A molecular genetic technique that combines chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) with massively parallel DNA sequencing to map the binding sites of DNA-associated proteins in a sample of cells.

(ChIP-Seq, NCI Thesaurus)

I could see even in the dim light that the stone was massively carved, but that the carving had been much worn by time and weather.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In an office that might have been on the ground-floor of the Tower of Babel, it was so massively constructed, we were presented to our old schoolmaster; who was one of a group, composed of two or three of the busier sort of magistrates, and some visitors they had brought.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Next, the crosslinks are broken, the proteins are removed and the purified DNA is modified with adaptor oligonucleotides to facilitate massively parallel DNA sequencing.

(ChIP-Seq, NCI Thesaurus)