"fiducially" meaning in English

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Adverb

Forms: more fiducially [comparative], most fiducially [superlative]
Etymology: From fiducial + -ly. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fiducial|ly}} fiducial + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} fiducially (comparative more fiducially, superlative most fiducially)
  1. With confidence.
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  2. In a fiducial manner; using or as a reference marker.
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  3. (proscribed) Synonym of fiducial (accepted as a basis of reference) Tags: proscribed Synonyms: fiducial [synonym, synonym-of]
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  4. (statistics) Pertaining to or based on the correspondence between a parameter in a sample and the same parameter in the population from which the sample was drawn. Categories (topical): Statistics
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  5. (law) In a fiduciary manner. Categories (topical): Law
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (74c5344 and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.