Modifies a noun

• determinant: Even in the 1900s, however, thresholds continue to characterize the relationship of education to several of the proximate determinants that reduce fertility.

• cause: The proximate cause appears to me to be clear.

• intention: The proximate intention is to be distinguished from the remote intention, which is the purpose the agent has for doing what he does.

• goal: The proximate goals are the most common pattern of validation in traditional Buddhist communities.

• mechanism: One of the proximate mechanisms that results from the ( evolutionary ) logic of privacy is embarrassment.

• reason: The proximate reason is that consumer spending is expected to rise much faster in Britain.

Modifying Another Word

• geographically: The benefits of concentration to owners appeared greatest where there was common ownership of titles across a number of geographically proximate local newspaper markets.

• culturally: Becoming culturally proximate In non-Western countries, America has long been closely associated with images of being modern.

• physically: Cities entail social distance between thousands of physically proximate individuals.