spreadly

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adverb

In a spread out or widespread manner; widely.

Scrabble 14

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adverbspreadly (comparative more spreadly, superlative most spreadly)

comparative more spreadly · superlative most spreadly

  1. In a spread out or widespread manner; widely.

    Even a number of cracks have appeared spreadly and have been sealed with appropriate treatments, [...]

    2003, Zhishen Wu, Masato Abe, Structural Health Monitoring and Intelligent Infrastructure
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    Flower white, or slightly tinged with straw-colour, edged with crimson, spreadly open very much when full blown.

    1827, Robert Sweet, The florist's guide, and cultivator's directory

    Moreover they are spreadly diffused and, in comparison with mainframes, they allow an easy direct access to system resources.

    1987, J. L. Atwood, J. E. D. Davies, Structural Health Monitoring and Intelligent Infrastructure ..., Volume 2

    In the last few years the use of amorphous ribbons as core of magnetoelastic devices to measure deformation was spreadly studied in its fundamental concepts.

    2000, Paolo Di Barba, A. Savini, Non-linear Electromagnetic Systems: ISEM '99

    Indeed, symmetric encryption algorithms are a few orders of magnitude more efficient than public key ones. TripleDES, RC6, and RIJNDAEL, for example, are fast algorithms, spreadly used, and supposed to be secure.

    2001, George I. Davida, Yair Frankel, Information Security

    Introduction Cryptography is currently spreadly used to protect digital communication and information processing.

    2004, Riccardo Focardi, Roberto Gorrieri, Foundations of Security Analysis and Design II

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APA

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