NAMELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does namely mean? 

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

1. as follows

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAMELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

As follows

Synonyms:

namely; that is to say; to wit; videlicet; viz.

 Context examples 

It’s beautifully aspected, one of the best new moons of 2020, and it falls in one of the most powerful places in your chart, namely your professional house of honors, awards, and achievement.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

One thing he learned, after he had read her a number of stories, namely, that she liked happy endings.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The study has identified three genes, namely DDR1, PIK3R1 and NF1, with relatively uncommon mutations that were associated with cancer recurrence and spreading.

(Study finds new clues in understanding relapse in breast cancer, Agência Brasil)

Membrane proteins that mediate immune cell-cell interactions fall into different categories, namely those involved in antigen recognition, costimulation and cellular adhesion.

(Cell Adhesion Molecule Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Three umpires to be chosen upon the ground, namely, two in ordinary and one in reference.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

FABPs are divided into at least three distinct types, namely the hepatic-, intestinal- and cardiac-type.

(FABP Family Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

There was another thing I could have wished, namely, that Jip had never been encouraged to walk about the tablecloth during dinner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But even if the tech gets perfected, automakers are still struggling with the current limitations of electronic vehicles, namely their limited range per charge.

(Tesla to Test Self-driving Electric Trucks, VOA News)

However, the composition of the wind – made of two types of electrically charged particles, namely ions and electrons – affects the flow.

(Solar Eruptions Could Electrify Martian Moons, NASA)

It represents a way to aggregate quarks, namely the fundamental constituents of ordinary protons and neutrons, in a pattern that has never been observed before in over fifty years of experimental searches.

(Physicists discover long-sought 'pentaquark' particle, NSF)