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SCHEDULED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Planned or scheduled for some certain time or times
Example:
the scheduled flights had to be cancelled because of snow
Classified under:
Similar:
regular (regularly scheduled for fixed times)
Antonym:
unscheduled (not scheduled or not on a regular schedule)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb schedule
Context examples:
Dawn launched in 2007 and is scheduled to enter Ceres orbit in March 2015.
(Dawn Spacecraft Begins Approach to Dwarf Planet Ceres, NASA)
There are 35 more close flybys of Jupiter planned during Juno's mission (scheduled to end in February 2018).
(Juno Successfully Completes Jupiter Flyby, NASA)
Google said Android operating systems would receive the updates in the software update scheduled to be made available on November 6.
(Digital security researchers publicly reveal vulnerability in WPA2 WiFi protocol, Wikinews)
Surgery that may be scheduled or undertaken by choice.
(Elective Surgical Procedure, NCI Thesaurus)
Both studies help pave the way for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in 2019.
(New Clues to TRAPPIST-1 Planet Compositions, Atmospheres, NASA)
The Implantation Classification domain provides a record for each implantation identified for the scheduled cesarean section component of a study.
(Implantation Classification Domain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Optional additional information about a laboratory procedure that can be planned, scheduled or performed in the framework of a particular study.
(Laboratory Procedure Comment, NCI Thesaurus)
Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled.
(Cancel, NCI Thesaurus)
The spacecraft’s first orbital insertion is scheduled for Dec. 31, and OSIRIS-REx will remain in orbit until mid-February 2019, when it exits to initiate another series of flybys for the next survey phase.
(NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Discovers Water on Asteroid, NASA)
Cassini is scheduled to make a close flyby of Enceladus on Oct. 28, in the mission's deepest-ever dive through the moon's active plume of icy material.
(Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn's Moon Enceladus, NASA)
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