Proximate /(?)/

Prox·i·mate

Proximate

a.
  1. Nearest; next immediately preceding or following.
    The proximate natural causes of it [the deluge].
    — T. Burnet.

Phrases & Compounds
Proximate analysis
an analysis which determines the proximate principles of any substance, as contrasted with an ultimate analysis.
Proximate cause
A cause which immediately precedes and produces the effect, as distinguished from the remote, mediate, or predisposing cause.
Proximate principle
one of a class of bodies existing ready formed in animal and vegetable tissues, and separable by chemical analysis, as albumin, sugar, collagen, fat, etc.