obviate

This is often a disadvantage, and may be obviated by the use of a spring instead of a weight.

But Mr Tsang appeared to hope that by applying moral pressure the need for unpopular government actions would be obviated.

Thus, HBGA obviated the need for a fixed representational scheme that was a limiting factor of both standard and interactive EC.

These contradictions had to be obviated by unintuitive, ad hoc devices; our mathematical myth-making became deliberate and evident to all.

Meanwhile, efficiency experts chime in that some share of the state's growing needs could be obviated by tighter standards.

Sometimes, the technology is obviated or superseded, sometimes the maintainer (you) wants to move on to something else.

These problems have been obviated by supporting the glassy material on a porous membrane remote from the eluant.

If those labor costs can be obviated by greater automation, then other considerations come into play.

"the objections . . . having . . . been obviated in the preceding chapter" (Joseph Butler).

Plug burning at two ends of the column is obviated during preparation, and difficulty on filling the column is also avoided.

Make a habit of pruning your list of completed, dead, and obviated tasks.

Ideally, we would have debuggers that completely obviated the need for printlns.

the presence of roller blinds obviated the need for curtains.

By removing her hat, the lady in front obviated the need for me to change my seat.

Results Of the 23 cases, pain was obviated with retrobulbar injection of chlorpromazine in 22 cases.

The need for bipartisanship has been obviated.

Hubble's discovery obviated the need for the cosmological term to counteract gravity;