ground-breaking

See also: groundbreaking

English

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Adjective

ground-breaking (comparative more ground-breaking, superlative most ground-breaking)

1. (idiomatic) innovative, different than other things of its type.

   ground-breaking technology

   • 2019 November 20, Philip Haigh, “A prestigious institution”, in Rail, page 69:

     There were papers such as John Aspinall's presidential address about his ground-breaking work on railway electrification in 1909 [...].

Translations

innovative

• German: bahnbrechend (de)
• Russian: инновацио́нный (ru) (innovaciónnyj)
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• Spanish: rompedor

Related terms

• break ground