electronically

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   by electronic means

   the door opens electronically

2. 2
   adv

   By means of electronics, or of electronic technology.

   In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.

Etymology

From electronic + -ally.