translatively
English edit
Etymology edit
translative + -ly
Adverb edit
translatively (not comparable)
- In a translative manner.
- 1846, “Edmund Burke”, in Douglas William Jerrold, editor, Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine[1], volume 4, page 45:
- "To move in a sphere" is the peculiar privilege of gold and silver fish; and is, translatively, the most absurd of all those absurd expressions to which illiterate and unreflecting fashion has given currency.
- 1994, Světla Čmejrková, Writing Vs Speaking: Language, Text, Discourse, Communication: Proceedings of the Conference Held at the Czech Language Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, October 14-16, 1992, page 105:
- Only uppercase W can be formed by the reflexively or translatively symmetrical doubling of a grapheme, namely V.
- 2007, Gerhard Lakemeyer, RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X[2], page 178:
- We do not shift the particles translatively because it can lead to unwanted behaviours. The MHT hypotheses are shifted translatively and rotatory according to their deltas.