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单词 innovation
释义

innovation

/ɪnəˈveɪʃ(ə)n /
noun [mass noun]
1The action or process of innovating: innovation is crucial to the continuing success of any organization...
  • An alliance allows its partners to speed up the processes of innovation and market expansion.
  • The Eighties were the decade of innovation and novelty in frozen and processed foods.
  • Scotland has a very proud record for biotech developments and innovation.

Synonyms

change, alteration, revolution, upheaval, transformation, metamorphosis, reorganization, restructuring, rearrangement, recasting, remodelling, renovation, restyling, variation;
new measures, new methods, new devices, novelty, newness, unconventionality, modernization, modernism;
a break with tradition, a shift of emphasis, a departure, a change of direction
informal a shake up
North American informal a shakedown
humorous transmogrification
1.1 [count noun] A new method, idea, product, etc. technological innovations designed to save energy...
  • He was always open to new ideas and innovations and increasingly his life became the canvas on which he plotted his art.
  • Take a look back at some of the events, ideas and innovations that brought us here.
  • Any nation with such a result will never catch up with the latest technological innovations.

Derivatives

innovational

/ɪnəˈveɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l/ adjective ...
  • It fills this role, in part, because it is a general-purpose technology one of a small number of drastic innovations that creates innovational complementarities that increase productivity in a downstream sector.
  • It was an innovational approach to solving problems and moving beyond the established and suitable restrictions of common usage.
  • In addition, a glimpse of an innovational approach is given which will revolutionize handling of such compounds in the future.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin innovatio(n-), from the verb innovare (see innovate).

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