Vast areas of rainforest are cut in one go (clear felling) and the most valuable trees are selected for timber, leaving the others for wood chipping. The roads that are created in order to cut and remove the timber often lead to further damage: see the effect of forest roads under Oil Companies.
adv. completely. 1  absolutely. 2  actually. 3  all. 4  all in all. 5  all told. 6  altogether. 7  considerably. 8  entirely. 9  fully. 10  in all respects. 11  in fact. 12  in reality. 13  in toto. 14  in truth. 15  just. 16  largely. 17  perfectly. 18  positively. 19  precisely. 20  purely. 21  really. 22  thoroughly. 23  totally. 24  truly. 25  utterly. 26  well. 27  wholly. 28  without reservation.
Much Greater. Much greater is used to indicate a strong inequality in which is not only greater than, but much greater (by some convention), is denoted. For an astronomer, much may mean by a factor of 100 (or even 10), while for a mathematician, it might mean by a factor of (or even much more). Euclid used the terminology that if is greater than and is greater than, then is said to be much (or far) greater than. In that sense, far greater than is synonymous with greater than for a dense set of ordered quantities. SEE ALSO: Greater, Much Less.