Polytechnic
[,pɒlɪ'teknɪk] or ['pɑlə'tɛknɪk]
Definition
(a.) Comprehending, or relating to, many arts and sciences; -- applied particularly to schools in which many branches of art and science are taught with especial reference to their practical application; also to exhibitions of machinery and industrial products.
Editor: Wallace
Definition
adj. comprehending many arts.—n. an exhibition of objects illustrating many arts: an institution in which many arts are taught.—ns. Polytech′nics the science of the mechanical arts; Polytech′nique or Polytechnic school an industrial school in which the technical sciences that rest in great part upon a mathematical basis such as engineering architecture &c. are taught.
Editor: Trudy
Examples
- Its first public exhibition was about the latter part of January, 1878, before the Polytechnic Association of the American Institute, at New York. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He was educated at the Polytechnic School in Berlin, and emigrated to America at the age of 25. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Checked by Bertrand