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UNIFORMLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a uniform manner

Example:

a uniformly bright surface

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

uniform (the same throughout in structure or composition)

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 Context examples: 

On that head, therefore, I shall be uniformly silent; and you may assure yourself that no ungenerous reproach shall ever pass my lips when we are married.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The tumor is composed of round or oval mononuclear cells and uniformly distributed osteoclast-like giant cells.

(Benign Giant Cell Tumor of Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

His naked fangs and writhing lips were uniformly efficacious, rarely failing to send a bellowing on-rushing dog back on its haunches.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It had been uniformly gloomy and dull.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Note 2: A colloidal dispersion is a system in which particles of colloidal dimension (i.e., typically between 1 nm and 1 micrometer) are distributed uniformly throughout a liquid.

(Gel Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

New research counters a widely-held scientific view that thawing permafrost uniformly accelerates atmospheric warming, indicating instead that certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they emit into the atmosphere.

(Certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they release, NSF)

Edmund was uniformly kind himself; and she had nothing worse to endure on the part of Tom than that sort of merriment which a young man of seventeen will always think fair with a child of ten.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

These findings indicate that bone marrow throughout the body does not uniformly contribute immune cells to help injured or infected tissue and suggests that the injured brain and skull bone marrow may communicate in some way that results in a direct response from adjacent leukocytes.

(Researchers unearth secret tunnels between the skull and the brain, National Institutes of Health)

Europa however has the perfect conditions necessary for penitentes to form more uniformly — its surface is dominated by ice; it has the thermal conditions needed for ice to sublime without melting; and there is very little variation in the angle in which the sun shines on the surface.

(Icy Warning for Space Missions to Jupiter's Moon, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I used to look at my master's face to see if it were sad or fierce; but I could not remember the time when it had been so uniformly clear of clouds or evil feelings.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)