adequately

adequate | American Dictionary

adequate
adjective
us/ˈæd·ɪ·kwət/
enough or satisfactory for a particular purpose:
He didn’t have adequate time to prepare for the exam.

adequacy

noun[ U ]us/ˈæd·ɪ·kwə·si/
We must re-examine the adequacy of our current security procedures.

adequately

adverbus/ˈæd·ɪ·kwət·li/
Were you adequately paid, or do you need more money?

adequate | Business English

adequate
adjective
uk /ˈædɪkwət/us
enough or good enough for a particular purpose:
Staff did not receive adequate training.
adequate to do sthOur laws must be adequate to protect our citizens.
adequate for sthThis printer should be perfectly adequate for your needs.

Examples of adequate

adequate
In this sense, then, control relies on planning to provide an adequate efference copy.
The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical framework for adequate assessment procedures to testing foreign language vocabulary.
The long-term solution to the acquisition of adequate scientific manpower is training in the countries concerned.
Information pick-up from the global array is not sufficient without adequate exploratory movements and learning to support perceptually guided activity.
This kind of representation of tasks is quite adequate for many real-world problems.
Many tasks involve sensory information that is ambiguous, and other sources of information may be required for adequate perception.
Poverty should be reduced and adequate healthcare and nutrition made available to all children.
We can identify causal mechanisms with some precision provided that the research design is adequate.
It also follows that the task of ensuring adequate feedback can be a difficult one.
Thus, parents' responses might instruct children on what must be mentioned to give adequate directions to finding an object.
It can be demonstrated that this 45° angle for the strain gauges is adequate to measure torsion in circular sections.
The scientific function of the flowerpot seems less adequate than the function for which it was originally designed!
Presence of an adequate water film is related positively with rainfall and negatively with insolation.
If adequate stability and satisfactory positioning were confirmed the cable was unscrewed, releasing the device.
Currently there is no adequate method to predetermine the potential impacts of a released genetically modified organism on the ecosystem.
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