单词 | industrial age |
释义 | > as lemmasindustrial age industrial age n. an era marked by widespread industrialization; spec. (with the) the period in the history of the developed world from the start of the Industrial Revolution, in the late 18th cent., to the information age, in the late 20th cent.; cf. information age n. at information n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iv. i. 333 We will now quit this of the hard, organic, but limited Feudal Ages; and glance timidly into the immense Industrial Ages, as yet all inorganic. 1915 P. Geddes Cities in Evol. iv. 63 We may distinguish the earlier and ruder elements of the Industrial Age as Paleotechnic, the newer and still often incipient elements disengaging themselves from these as Neotechnic. 1944 Fortune Mar. 147/1 A brilliant inventor and one of the shrewdest and most resourceful of the risk takers who ushered in the industrial age early in the nineteenth century. 2008 Independent 2 Sept. (Extra section) 5/3 Crowdsourcing is the antithesis of Fordism, the assembly-line mentality that dominated the industrial age. < as lemmas |
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