polytechnic
polytechnic
Definition
poly·tech·nic (-tek′nik)
adjective
of or providing instruction in many scientific and technical subjects
Etymology: Fr polytechnique < Gr polytechnos, skilled in many arts < poly-, poly- + technē: see technic
noun
a polytechnic school
polytechnic
Synonyms
polytechnic
n.
polytechnic
Usage Examples
Preposition: into
- university: In better moments, she finds irony in being called a Tory; It was the Conservatives who made the polytechnics into universities.
Converse of object
- become: The institution finally became a polytechnic in 1991, the formal launch occurring on 1 May that year.
Adjective modifier
- former: In contrast, just 22 % of language undergraduates were studying at the former polytechnics.
- local: The local polytechnic, which runs its own observatory, had published its picture which was awful.
- first: It was founded as the country's first polytechnic in 1838.
- new: People know Hull is one of the " red brick " universities, not one of the new converted polytechnics.
Modifies a noun
- designation: The new large college had all the necessary qualities to seek polytechnic designation.
- lecturer: After all, I was hardly the polytechnic lecturer who'd been around for years.
- university: He served as a director of the famous Technical School of Alexandria ( maybe the world's first polytechnic university ).
- sector: After five years of teaching adults in the polytechnic sector - as it was then!
- institute: Control of the it had cemented a lawyer seek polytechnic institute predicts.
- graduate: Selection of Technicians At Aravind we recruit polytechnic graduates.
Noun used with modifier
- alabama: In the action the alabama polytechnic produce nuclei for the same sort.
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