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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
respectively
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In terms of population, California and New York rank first and second respectively.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Changes in the labour force accounted for 1.53 percent and 1.57 percent respectively.
▪ Out of the 35% in favour, 33% and 11% respectively were from solicitors in medium-sized and larger practices.
▪ The 3270 and 3179G emulation packages are £270 and £455 respectively.
▪ The only bright spot was provided by software and services, where turnover increased by 4.3% and 12.1% respectively.
▪ They obtained propulsive rates of 87% and 93% when swallowing liquids and solids respectively.
▪ Yendle and Westwood also made important tackles on Webbe and Gareth Thomas respectively.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Respectively

Respectively \Re*spec"tive*ly\, adv.

  1. As relating to each; particularly; as each belongs to each; as each refers to each in order; as, let each man respectively perform his duty.

    The impressions from the objects or the senses do mingle respectively every one with its kind.
    --Bacon.

  2. Relatively; not absolutely. [Obs.]
    --Sir W. Raleigh.

  3. Partially; with respect to private views. [Obs.]

  4. With respect; regardfully. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
respectively

mid-15c., "relatively;" 1620s, "relatively to each singly," from respective + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
respectively

adv. In a relative manner; often used when comparing lists, where the term denotes that the items in the lists correspond to each other in the order they are given.

WordNet
respectively

adv. in the order given; "the brothers were called Felix and Max, respectively" [syn: severally]

Usage examples of "respectively".

Jeanneney and Herriot respectively, refused to attend the social functions accorded the Nazi visitor.

The two chief obstacles to the cultivation of attentional stability and vividness are excitation and laxity, respectively, and it is the task of introspection to detect the occurrence of these mental processes as soon as they arise.

Quality and Quantity, though attributive, are real entities, and on the basis of this reality distinguishable as Quality and Quantity respectively: then, on the same principle, since Motion, though an attribute has a reality prior to its attribution, it is incumbent upon us to discover the intrinsic nature of this reality.

If we are agreed that Quality and Quantity, though attributive, are real entities, and on the basis of this reality distinguishable as Quality and Quantity respectively: then, on the same principle, since Motion, though an attribute has a reality prior to its attribution, it is incumbent upon us to discover the intrinsic nature of this reality.

The quantities of propionic, butyric, and valerianic acids respectively which are required to neutralise as much base as 6.

Generalizations which respectively affirm that all the angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles, or that the square of the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, rest upon an entirely different basis of proof from those upon which the Generalizations rest which respectively assert that water is composed of certain chemical constituents combined in certain proportions, or that the nerves are the instruments of sensation and of motion.

In 1964, when his daughters Margarite and Celeste were nine and six respectively, he remarried.

Nick Rael, the third horse on a tether beside the highway eating the Right of Way grass for nothing, and his ten sheep spread into groups of three, three, and four each, grazing in overgrazed pastures belonging to Pete Apo-daca, Ray Gusdorf, and Seferino Pacheco, respectively.

But these three cosmologies resemble with an awkward, almost embarrassing precision the human perinatal experiences of Grofs Stages 1,2, and 3 plus 4, respectively.

The author wishes to thank Paul Pottinger, MD, and Philip Yarnell, MD, for their expertise in the fields of, respectively, infectious diseases and neurology.

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.

That no private property shall be damaged or taken for any purpose under this section without just compensation, and that such authority to take and occupy land shall not authorize the taking, use, or occupation of any land except such as is required for the actual necessary purposes for which the franchise is granted, and that no franchise or right shall be granted to any individual, firm, or corporation except under the conditions that it shall be subject to amendment, alteration, or repeal by the Congress of the United States, and that lands or right of use and occupation of lands thus granted shall revert to the governments by which they were respectively granted upon the termination of the franchises and rights under which they were granted or upon their revocation or repeal.

The saliva is composed of four elementary secretions, derived respectively, from the mucous follicles of the mouth, and the parotid, the submaxillary, and the sublingual glands.

A loin cloth of soft leather was tied around his waist so as to serve the purpose of a belt, and through it were stuck, on the right and left sides respectively, a long double-edged knife, and a sumpitan, or blow gun, with its pouch of poisoned darts.

Elrns and Mike Wooller helped me to find Anglo-American and German popular songs respectively.