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UNIFORMLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uniformly mean? 

UNIFORMLY (adverb)
  The adverb UNIFORMLY has 1 sense:

1. in a uniform mannerplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


UNIFORMLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In a uniform manner

Context example:

a uniformly bright surface

Pertainym:

uniform (the same throughout in structure or composition)


 Context examples 


A collection of banked tumor specimens from large numbers of uniformly treated cancer patients with a variety of malignancies.

(Clinical Trials Cooperative Groups Human Tissue Resources, NCI Thesaurus)

This value assumes that the compound is uniformly distributed in the body of the organism at the concentration found in its plasma or another tissue.

(Distribution Volume, NCI Thesaurus)

A uniformly echogenic layer of fibroglandular tissue is seen beneath a thin layer of subcutaneous fat.

(Homogeneous Fibroglandular Echotexture, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)

Colonel Barclay’s family life appears to have been a uniformly happy one.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dust that orbits a star, called circumstellar dust, is not so small it would fly away, but also not big enough to uniformly block light in all wavelengths.

(Mysterious Dimming of Tabby's Star May Be Caused by Dust, NASA)

These cells are uniform in appearance and have uniformly sized and shaped nuclei.

(Ductal Epithelial Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Nothing in my opinion has ever passed to justify doubt; no secrecy has been attempted; all has been uniformly open and unreserved.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Fat lobules and uniformly echogenic bands of supporting structures comprise the bulk of breast tissue.

(Homogeneous Fat Echotexture, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)

A diffuse large B-cell lymphoma characterized by the presence of immunoblasts with uniformly round-to-oval nuclei, a prominent nucleolus, and abundant cytoplasm.

(Immunoblastic Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

This uniformly alternating intensity of such a test object can be used to visually assess the resolution of an imaging device.

(Line Pair, NCI Thesaurus)



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