adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a technological/scientific breakthrough
▪ Their findings led to a major technological breakthrough.
technological evolution
▪ The pace of technological evolution is getting faster all the time.
technological innovation
▪ Many people feel bewildered by the speed of technological innovation.
technological/scientific/medical etc advance
▪ one of the great technological advances of the 20th century
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
achievement
▪ But let us turn to specific details of the present government's technological achievements.
activity
▪ Amongst the industries most affected by deregulation have been those involved in innovatory technological activity.
▪ In this regard, fundamental changes are required in organizational patterns of scientific and technological activities in the region.
▪ Occasionally closely stratified deposits of debris can be related to production phases and technological activities on the site.
advance
▪ The cost in terms of technological advance and the dissemination of fresh and stimulating ideas, is incalculable but colossal.
▪ Can the market system provide the capital goods upon which technological advance relies?
▪ But continuous technological advance has not meant ever-rising unemployment.
▪ Every technological advance has its advantages and disadvantages.
▪ Despite all the technological advances of science, it seemed survival still depended on the action of a man.
▪ Mergers, cutting down, restructuring, and technological advances have increased the intensity of the winds of change.
▪ However, affluence and technological advances have created new kinds of safety hazards for people who live in Western society.
▪ Within a span of decades, technological advances, organizational innovations, and new ways of thinking transform economies.
advancement
▪ I do know that I don't go along with the belief that the Soviets always trail the West in technological advancement.
advantage
▪ It is not clear, however, what are the economic and technological advantages of this development.
approach
▪ The result of his technological approach was that workers had to adjust to the management and not the management to workers.
aspect
▪ Where such detailed studies have been made they tend towards the typological and shy away from the technological aspects.
▪ He prided himself on being familiar with both editorial and technological aspects of publishing.
▪ Even if the technological aspects are fully understood, the application of the law to them may still perplex.
breakthrough
▪ If I was a scientist it would be like finding a cure for for a disease or a technological breakthrough.
▪ In other words, a technological breakthrough supposedly ushered in new symbolic meanings.
▪ The Ti'Ko range is not only remarkable for its price, it also boasts a technological breakthrough in graphics speed.
▪ New switching techniques and other technological breakthroughs enable all types of information to travel to the home.
▪ This game is truly a technological breakthrough.
▪ And departmental power can change over time, depending on economic conditions, technological breakthroughs, and government legislation.
capability
▪ One that balances leading edge technological capability with a thorough understanding of your business.
▪ An assessment of the present status of technological capabilities and identification of gaps, short-comings and needs; 2.
▪ Some technological capabilities have been enhanced, but the main benefits have been restricted to the simpler parts of the industry.
▪ Thus much research and development effort remains to create the technological capabilities needed to realize the objectives of open architecture and interoperability.
▪ Thus the scope of this new technique is enormous and its technological capabilities are being explored vigorously.
▪ The relationship between a company's size and its technological capabilities is unclear.
change
▪ But often, too, the technological change shifted the companies' labour requirements.
▪ There is danger that technological change will render obsolete a product or method of production.
▪ But improved communications, technological change, and increased demand led to concentration of food production in fewer and greater units.
▪ The loss was caused by technological change and the amplifying feedback loop of responses to that change.
▪ The pace of technological change is quickening.
▪ But aside from such trifling accomplishments, the superhero is also symbolic of an era of remarkable technological change.
▪ Business people say technological change will mean fewer but better jobs.
▪ Governments can do little about the speed of technological change, but they should take action to alleviate its effects on people.
determinism
▪ I shall discuss later the theoretical objections to technological determinism.
development
▪ New technological developments may change the value of reprints in the near future.
▪ To accommodate the latest technological developments, manufacturers produce peripherals that can be added on to the older machines.
▪ The forces which drive technological development have a close parallel in biological evolution.
▪ The United Kingdom is one of the leaders in open systems, which is a very important technological development.
▪ He develops his argument by identifying four phases in technological development.
▪ Recent technological developments have enhanced the possibility of fatal shootings.
▪ Accelerating technological development has pushed the government of every country off-balance in the past decade.
education
▪ He undoubtedly made a major contribution, not only to the profession of chemical engineering but to technology and technological education generally.
▪ College Principal Clive Brain says there's a growing demand for technological education and he's expecting large numbers of applicants.
expertise
▪ A considerable injection of resources will be required to provide the managerial and technological expertise called for in the White Paper.
▪ Generally speaking, self-sufficiency in scientific and technological expertise is a characteristic of all industrial countries, large and small.
▪ We will ensure that more schools, especially in the inner cities, have the opportunity to develop their technological expertise.
fix
▪ One technological fix for this problem is to fit carousels on to the welding machines.
▪ Dependency promotes what could be seen as the technological fix.
▪ This book assesses the technological fix for the muddle left by downsizing and reengineering.
improvement
▪ Owing to reclamation, technological improvements and urbanization, agricultural productivity and the level of production rose during the period.
▪ Financial analysis and management have been revolutionized by technological improvements in personal computers and data processing equipment.
▪ The approach encourages both manual and technological improvements to be considered.
▪ No wonder then that these popular industries demanded and even initiated technological improvements.
▪ This is only partly attributable to technological improvements.
▪ Competition between very clever people to be first with the best answers yields the progress on which technological improvement depends.
▪ It is interesting to note that certain problems which have been solved by technological improvements reappear as the technology continues to evolve.
▪ Further, assume that due to technological improvement workers can now produce twice as much.
innovation
▪ Research into technological innovation has generally assumed that although shifts have occurred they have been within a stable organisational framework.
▪ But after that, for some seven centuries, there was no major technological innovation.
▪ It is not as if Eurotunnel was working at the leading-edge of technological innovation.
▪ Nothing can change, or will change, without technological innovations.
▪ Agriculture was to be improved by west-coast land reclamation and technological innovations.
▪ Fox will try to bring the puck more into the picture tomorrow night with a technological innovation.
▪ Neff specialises in technological innovation, which makes living and cooking easier.
▪ Conditions would become more conducive to entrepreneurial initiative, capital accumulation, the division of labour, technological innovation, and industrialization.
knowledge
▪ On the other, is the rural enclave with archaic traditional technological knowledge which is fast decaying.
progress
▪ One is the effect of technological progress on productivity growth.
▪ Nevertheless, telecommuting is destined to increase, he said, pushed along by snowstorms, traffic jams and technological progress.
▪ Aviation is usually forward-looking, bound up with the future and with technological progress.
▪ In other words, the judicial process has never been indifferent to technological progress.
▪ For scientific and technological progress released forces of destruction in equal measure to forces of production.
▪ They follow and brilliantly exploit technological progress, and supply high-quality goods at low prices.
▪ In recent years, a great deal of emphasis has been placed on technological progress as a cause of structural unemployment.
▪ It is equally important to note that the change in attitude and technological progress should not imply the rejection of exogenous technology.
revolution
▪ Do you wonder I now see the positive side of the technological revolution?!
▪ Nevertheless, it is possible to consider the strategic weight of the technological revolution.
▪ In a staggeringly short time Helsinki has emerged as the centre of the next big technological revolution.
▪ Nowadays, the technological revolution we are living in is the most important for humanity.
▪ Information technology Introduction Lawyers have been slow to embrace the technological revolution.
▪ It's a decidedly low-tech spot, but a technological revolution is under way here.
▪ The second element is that information is the basis of technological revolution, it is a perfectly immaterial revolution.
society
▪ The authorities are attempting to build a technological society on unpromising foundations.
▪ And not just individual men, but the whole structure of urban technological society.
▪ Undoubtedly they were places with magnetic stones and high natural radiation - things much rarer than in our modem technological society.
▪ In our constantly changing, global, highly technological society, collaboration is a necessity.
superiority
▪ Two of the attacking aircraft were destroyed in an engagement which underlined the technological superiority of the allied weapons systems.
▪ The United States overestimated its technological superiority and underestimated the nationalist passion of its enemy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Electronically created data has been and is being produced in a number of different organizational and technological environments.
▪ In collaboration with foreign research groups, comparative studies of some of the technological areas will also be undertaken.
▪ In other words, the judicial process has never been indifferent to technological progress.
▪ Many managers tend to view computer security and computer crime as technological problems that technicians can solve.
▪ Nor is it intended to be any kind of technological treatise.
▪ The dredger represents a major technological advance for the miners.
▪ The loss was caused by technological change and the amplifying feedback loop of responses to that change.
▪ They were the pioneers willing to accept the rough edges of life on the technological frontier.