0 past simple and past participle of obviate
1 to remove a difficulty, especially so that action to deal with it becomes unnecessary:
However, the problem of extreme distortion of the polar regions remains, and this can again be obviated by choosing a transverse aspect of the projection.
Given that the voltage-dependent calcium channels are essential for signal transduction, how are calcium action potentials obviated in photoreceptors?
For the remaining rules the sizes of the set friends obviated are: 17 (for 8 rules), 14 (for 4 rules), and 6 (for 2 rules).
Residual errors were obviated by measuring the intensity of each stimulus over the same screen area imaged onto the preparation.
These problems were obviated by recourse to an intermediary.
And it is practically infeasible for state agents adequately to monitor most potentially dangerous agents, even if privacy concerns were obviated.
The statistical procedure just described obviated the problem of multicolinearity, but did not eliminate interpretative problems.
The need for such trust-wide services may be obviated if dedicated hospital-at-home teams exist in the area.
