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[ adjective ] based in scientific and industrial progress
Examples "a technological civilization" Used in print (Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine,"...)The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America , but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive_at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not strictly practical ends of culture . Whether any of us remain in it long will depend_on what happens as a result of the technological and economic revolutions now going_on in the countries of Asia and Africa , and also of_course on how long the cold_war remains cold . (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)This group is secularist and their program tends to be technological . (Kenneth Reiner, "Coping with Runaway Technology"...)We have proved so able to solve technological problems that to contend we cannot realize a universal goal in the immediate future is to be extremely shortsighted , if nothing else . Their kind created an American culture superior to any in the world , an industrial and technological culture which penetrated Russia as it did almost every corner of the earth without a nickel from the Federal treasury or a single governmental specialist to contrive directives or program a series of consultations of interested agencies . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] of or relating to a practical subject that is organized according to scientific principles
Synonyms Examples "technical college" "technological development" Used in print (1961 Research Highlights of the National Bureau of...)In_addition to the basic programs in wavelength standards , spectroscopy , solid_state physics , interactions of the free electron and atomic constants which are necessary to provide the foundation for technological progress , the Bureau has strengthened its activities in laboratory astrophysics . (Public Papers of the Presidents of the U.S. D. D....)Furthermore , unexpectedly rapid progress or a technological break-through on any one weapon_system , in itself , often diminishes the relative importance of other competitive systems . The impact of technological factors is also illustrated by the history of the high energy fuel program . Related terms |
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