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UNPRECEDENTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having no precedent; novel
Example:
an unprecedented expansion in population and industry
Classified under:
Similar:
new; unexampled (having no previous example or precedent or parallel)
Antonym:
precedented (having or supported or justified by a precedent)
Context examples:
You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so unprecedented a position.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Because this rate of change is unprecedented, scientists expect that fish will be unable to adapt.
(Pacific island fish migrating to cooler seas, SciDev.Net)
Once orbiting the asteroid, OSIRIS-REx will spend two years surveying it in unprecedented detail.
(Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter, NASA)
During Cassini's orbits of Saturn, instruments examined the icy, rocky rings in unprecedented detail.
(Scientists Finally Know What Time It Is on Saturn, NASA)
The implications of such activity on a world other than our planet open up unprecedented scientific possibilities.
(Spacecraft Data Suggest Saturn Moon's Ocean May Harbor Hydrothermal Activity, NASA)
And in research, they describe for the first time their ability to predict, test, and confirm with unprecedented detail how a nematode's brain controls the way it moves.
(Fundamental Rules for How The Brain Controls Movement, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
This unprecedented observation could shed light on the life cycle of galaxies.
(ALMA and MUSE Detect Galactic Fountain, ESO)
By combining the different types of data, they were able to map the bed topography along Greenland's margins with unprecedented precision and detail.
(Hidden Greenland canyons mean more sea level rise, NASA)
The investigators concluded that IV BCG conferred an unprecedented degree of protection in an animal model of severe TB and “represents a major step forward in the field of TB vaccine research.”
(Changed route of immunization dramatically improves efficacy of TB vaccine, National Institutes of Health)
The unprecedented lethality of a single disease affecting an entire vertebrate class highlights the threat from the spread of novel pathogens in a globalized world.
(Deadly fungal disease ‘caused greatest biodiversity loss ever recorded’, SciDev.Net)
