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[ adverb ] (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result

Examples

"therefore X must be true" "the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory" "we were young and thence optimistic" "it is late and thus we must go"

Used in print

(Musical America, LXXXI:5...)

Thus in Prokofieff the Union_of_Soviet_Socialist_Republics produced one of the great composers of the Twentieth Century .

(Walter H. Buchsbaum, "Advances in Medical Electronics"...)

The travel time of sound in tissue is about 1500 meters per second thus it takes about 16 � msec. to traverse 25 mm. of tissue .

(Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)

Thus , 1745 corresponded to the invention of the `` Leiden '' jar by Kleist , 1764 that of the electrophorus by Wilcke , 1782 produced the condenser of Volta , and 1801 the voltaic_pile .

([Anonymous,] "The Attack on Employee Services"...)

The blue-collar worker thus knows his insurance package , for_example , costs $ 227.72 .

Thus , there is an added incentive to stay on_the_job .

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[ adverb ] in the way indicated

Synonyms

so thusly

Examples

"hold the brush so" "set up the pieces thus" (`thusly' is a nonstandard variant)

Used in print

(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)

But He set a bound to his [ state of ] sin , by interposing death , and thus causing sin to cease , putting an end to it by the dissolution of the flesh , which should take_place in the earth , so_that man , ceasing at_length to live in sin , and dying to it , might live to God '' .

One night , so some of these theories run , Adam would have fallen_asleep , much_as he fell_asleep for the creation of Eve ; and thus he would have been carried_over into the life_eternal .

(Mr. America, 4:6...)

It speeds muscle growth and power development even for the advanced bodybuilder because each hip and leg is exercised separately , thus enabling a massive , concentrated effort to be focused_on each .

(Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)

If a nation wished to get a head_start in physical fitness over all other nations , it would start its kindergarten students on a program of gymnastics the day they entered and thus eliminate a large_number of the problems that plague American schools .

(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)

In response , the industry allowed the discovery of the motion_picture as a form of fiction and thus gave the movies the essential form they have had to this day .

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[ noun ] an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation

Related terms

gum cense

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