selectively

In a selective manner, only affecting or applying to some selected cases.

Adverb

  1. In a selective manner, only affecting or applying to some selected cases.
    • Our prototype implements a basic pharming attack to selectively misresolve the client domain name requests. - 2006, Markus Jakobsson, Steven Myers, Phishing and Countermeasures, page 128:

Origin

Etymology tree English selective Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English selectively From selective + -ly.

Forms

more selectively most selectively

Derived

hepatoselectively nonselectively photoselectively selectively mute superselectively