单词 | third wave |
释义 | > as lemmasthird wave third wave n. [in allusion to Plato's metaphor ( Republic 472 a) τὸ μέγιστον τῆς τρικυμίας ‘the greatest of the three waves’] the last and most forceful of three successive arguments or propositions. ΚΠ 1866 A. C. Swinburne Poems & Ballads 43 Who swims in sight of the great third wave That never a swimmer shall cross or climb. 1933 Mind. XLII. 175 We come now to the ‘third wave’ of the discussion. 1965 Observer 4 Apr. 31/3 The third wave in the tide of emancipation. third wave third wave n. (usually with capital initials) a period of major economic, social, and cultural change (following an agrarian First Wave and industrial Second Wave), in which knowledge (esp. as stored and disseminated by information technology) becomes the primary productive force. ΚΠ 1980 A. Toffler Third Wave i. 30 Today all the high-technology nations are reeling from the collision between the Third Wave and the obsolete encrusted economies and institutions of the Second. 1981 Cause/Effect Jan. 6 (title) As the Third Wave approaches higher education: Planning for the electronic institution. 1997 M. Collin & J. Godfrey Altered State v. 157 Dance partisans..considered themselves..as Third Wave techno-rebels. < as lemmas |
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