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Provisionally (adv) means For the time being, until something more permanent is arranged.

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For the time being, until something more permanent is arranged.

"Before the discovery and confirmation of the existence of rhenium predicted by Mendeleev's periodic law, rhenium was provisionally termed dvi-manganese because of its expected resemblance to manganese." — J. Michael Davis, Manganese and Rhenium (2001)

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