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STATE-OF-THE-ART
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The highest level of development at a particular time (especially the present time)
Example:
state-of-the-art technology
Classified under:
Similar:
progressive (favoring or promoting progress)
Context examples:
To confirm their suspicions, in May 2016 the team sent a research plane from Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute to fly over the Hiawatha Glacier and map the crater and the overlying ice with a state-of-the-art ice-penetrating radar provided by the University of Kansas.
(Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice, NASA)
These include state-of-the-art perovskite light absorbers, which provide a high photovoltage and electrical current to power the chemical reaction by which carbon dioxide is reduced to carbon monoxide, in comparison to light absorbers made from silicon or dye-sensitised materials.
(‘Artificial leaf’ successfully produces clean gas, University of Cambridge)
The research by the University of South Australia in partnership with the University of Stuttgart, Flinders University and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany, uses state-of-the-art machine-learning algorithms to demonstrate a link between personality and eye movements.
(Eyes Can Indicate Personality Type, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
