polytechnic
IPA: pɑɫɪtˈɛknɪk
noun
- (UK, dated) An educational institute that teaches applied arts and sciences rather than academic subjects.
- (obsolete) An exhibition of objects illustrating many arts.
- (Singapore) A three-year post-secondary vocational training institute, equivalent of community college in the U.S. or TAFE in Australia.
adjective
- that teaches applied arts, sciences, technology, engineering and other academic subjects
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Examples of "polytechnic" in Sentences
- The same applied to the polytechnic schools.
- Polytechnic is widely used in many regions nowadays.
- In the polytechnic image, the institution is visible.
- Here is the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
- The Polytechnic courses were created in the same year.
- This was the beginning of the uprising of the Polytechnic.
- Yes, but AFTER he got his doctorate at Zurich polytechnic.
- The polytechnic lecturers also expressed their displeasure.
- The palace of the Maharaja now serves as the polytechnic college.
- He attended the polytechnic school and the University of Copenhagen.
- Better to skip the polytechnic and go straight to the burger flipping.
- I got to know about this series through my lecturer Mr. Lau who thought me scriptwriting in polytechnic.
- John Kadzanja, registrar of the polytechnic, which is part of the University of Malawi, told AFP the decision to close down had been taken to avoid deaths.
- The 58-year-old Safar holds a doctorate in agricultural sciences from a French polytechnic center and was the dean of Damascus University's agricultural faculty from 1997-2000.
- "polytechnic" and "specialized;" an odd turn, which became possible because the technology is efficient enough to let people do today more things than it was possible in the past.
- Thus, when today we talk about this hospital being inaugurated and talk about this health polytechnic, which is already is in operation, and talk about this school of medicine whose construction has begun.
- Dimitris Hadzisokratis, who led the occupation of Athens polytechnic in 1973, a heroic moment of resistance that began the overthrow of Greece's military junta, is now the leader of the Greek Democratic Left party.
- The country has around 7,500 technical institutes for higher education and only 2,500 polytechnic institutes, according to data available with the All India Council for Technical Education, the technical education regulator.
- At that time, one generation ago, I was involved in admissions to an engineering department in a polytechnic and we were turning down for HND, never mind our BEng, candidates much stronger than those being accepted for many degree courses today.
- It led free-thinking historians to a ridiculous exaggeration of Jeanne's intellectual faculties, to the absurdity of attributing military talent to her and to the substitution of a kind of polytechnic phenomenon for the fifteenth century's artless marvel.