Thesaurus: proximate

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1. a. Nearest; next immediately preceding or following.
2. adj. closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects
3. adj. very close in space or time
4. Nearest; next immediately preceding or following. "Proximate ancestors." J. S. Harford. The proximate natural causes of it [the deluge]. T. Burnet. Proximate analysis (Chem.), an analysis which determines the proximate principles of any substance, as contrasted with an ultimate analysis. -- Proximate cause. (a) A cause which immediately precedes and produces the effect, as distinguished from the remote, mediate, or predisposing cause. I. Watts. (b) That which in ordinary natural sequence produces a specific result, no independent disturbing agencies intervening. -- Proximate principle (Physiol. Chem.), one of a class of bodies existing ready formed in animal and vegetable tissues, and separable by chemical analysis, as albumin, sugar, collagen, fat, etc. Syn. -- Nearest; next; closest; immediate; direct.
5. Nearest; next immediately preceding or following. "Proximateancestors." J. S. Harford.The proximate natural causes of it [the deluge]. T. Burnet.Proximate analysis (Chem.), an analysis which determines theproximate principles of any substance, as contrasted with an ultimateanalysis.-- Proximate cause. (a) A cause which immediately precedes andproduces the effect, as distinguished from the remote, mediate, orpredisposing cause. I. Watts. (b) That which in ordinary naturalsequence produces a specific result, no independent disturbingagencies intervening.-- Proximate principle (Physiol. Chem.), one of a class of bodiesexisting ready formed in animal and vegetable tissues, and separableby chemical analysis, as albumin, sugar, collagen, fat, etc.
6. j:100 a. closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects s. very close in space or time