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polytechnic

Word definitions for polytechnic in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. that teaches applied arts and sciences rather than academic subjects n. An educational institute that teaches applied arts and sciences rather than academic subjects

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a technical school offering instruction in many industrial arts and applied sciences [syn: polytechnic institute , engineering school ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Polytechnic ( Greek: Πολυτεχνείο) is the traditional name for institutions of higher education in Greece , dealing with engineering at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. There are currently two polytechnics that operate as independent (public) ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN director ▪ Differences were constantly defined by the polytechnic directors and others in terms of the funding differentials between the two sectors. ▪ This is because polytechnic directors who tried to list their institutions ...

Usage examples of polytechnic.

Nearly forty years ago, while teaching the elements of physiology at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, it occurred to me to illustrate the statements of textbooks by a repetition of such simple experiments as had come before my own eyes.

Educated at Polytechnic Preparatory School, Mercersburg Academy, and Washington and Lee University.

Hayhoe, the Member for Brentford and Isleworth, a state schoolboy who went to a Polytechnic, served his time as a toolroom apprentice and became Minister for Health.

The elder had been educated at the Polytechnic School, the other at the School of Saint Cyr. Scipio was four years older than his brother.

Questioning Ashley reveals that she is a social studies lecturer at a polytechnic.

After finishing the studies at the Polytechnic Institute and University, I had a complete nervous breakdown and while the malady lasted I observed many phenomena, strange and unbelievable.

In 1896 he gave up his German citizenship to avoid military conscription and entered the Zurich Polytechnic Institute on a four-year course designed to churn out high school science teachers.

Yet another potential setback for American Airlines' frequently delayed debut of its passenger shuttle service to Space Station Freedom: Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, indicate that departing soulwaves may rely on detecting Earth's gravitational and magnetic fields in order to find the direction they should move in.

On graduation from the Polytechnic Institute, he was invited to serve on its faculty.

He had said that he was a student nights at a Polytechnic Institute with a name she could not pronounce and that he didn't get enough sleep so there were dark circles under his eyes.

Petersburg, or yet with the Travellers' Club, or even the Royal Polytechnic Institute, where his friend the statistician Cockburn ruled in state.

He continued this at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York where he ,had all the equipment he needed, but remained addicted to theory, it being so much cleaner and neater.

He told of scholarships and polytechnics, of rebuffs and encouragements, of a University career of brilliant success and unexampled privations.