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Close or closest; adjacent. / (law) Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation. / About to take place; impending.

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proximate

Adjective

not-comparable

Japanese Meaning

最も近い、隣接している / 因果関係上、直前または直後に位置する / もうすぐ起こりうる、差し迫った

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They took refuge in the proximate shelter until the storm passed.

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彼らは嵐が過ぎるまで最寄りの避難所に避難した。

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Sense（1）

Close or closest; adjacent.

And writing a Theory of the Deluge here, as we do, we were to exhibit a Series of causes whereby it might be made intelligible, or to shew the proximate Natural Causes of it; […]

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Sense（2）

(law) Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation.

Sense（3）

About to take place; impending.

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