Electronically means by means of computers or electric circuits. Filed electronically.
It is the word used in rules and forms where submitted online would be too casual. Anything done electronically leaves a record, which is both the advantage and the risk.
1adverbelectronicallyBy means of computers or electric circuits.
“Applications must be submitted electronically before the deadline.”
electronically is a manner.
Proto-Indo-European
*leyǵ- — to bind, tie
Latin
alligāre
Old French
alier — to join together, unite; to alloy (metals); (cooking) to combine ingredients
Middle French
alier
Anglo-Norman
alier
Middle English
allien
English
ally
English, today
electronically
Built from
From electronic + -ally. ally comes from Middle English allien, alien (“to form an alliance, associate, join; to become an ally; to introduce (someone) as an ally; to marry; to become related (to someone); to attack, engage in combat; to combine; (cooking) to combine ingredients, especially to bind them together”)alie, alleye, allie, ally, allye, aly, alye, alyȝe, from Anglo-Norman alier, allier, Middle French alier, allierallyer, alyer, and Old French alier (“to join together, unite; to alloy (metals); (cooking) to combine ingredients”) (modern French allier), from Latin alligāre, the present active infinitive of alligō, adligō (“to bind around, to, or up (something), bandage, fasten, fetter, tie; to hold fast; to detain, hinder”), from al-, ad- + ligō (“to bind, tie; to bandage, wrap around; to unite”) (from Proto-Indo-European leyǵ- (“to bind, tie”)). a doublet of allay and alligate and alloy and ligament.
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