Associations to the word «Proximate»

PROXIMATE, adjective. Close or closest; adjacent.

PROXIMATE, adjective. (legal) Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation.

PROXIMATE, adjective. About to take place; impending.

PROXIMATE, noun. (linguistics) A grammatical marker in the Algonquian (and some other) languages for a principal third person

PROXIMATE CAUSE, noun. (legal) An event which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces an injury, and without which the injury would not have occurred.

PROXIMATE CAUSES, noun. Plural of proximate cause

PROXIMATE PRINCIPLE, noun. (biochemistry) (archaic) Any of a class of substances found ready-formed in animal and vegetable tissues, and separable by chemical analysis, such as albumin, sugar, collagen, fat, etc.

PROXIMATE, adjective. Closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects; "news of his proximate arrival"; "interest in proximate rather than ultimate goals".

PROXIMATE, adjective. Very close in space or time; "proximate words"; "proximate houses".