on the fly
See also: on-the-fly
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Adverb
editon the fly (not comparable)
- (baseball, of the ball) While in the air, without having touched the ground.
- Synonym: in flight
- Jones caught the ball on the fly.
- (idiomatic) Spontaneously or extemporaneously; done as one goes, or during another activity.
- Synonyms: in flight, on the wing; on the spot; on the hoof (Britain)
- Hypernym: dynamically
- The software program has a table of values for some results, but calculates others on the fly.
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editwhile in the air
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spontaneously or extemporaneously
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