industrial

English

Etymology

From French industriel

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdʌstɹɪəl/

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Adjective

industrial (comparative more industrial, superlative most industrial)

1. Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.
   • 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:

     Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.

   The industrial segment of the economy has seen troubles lately.

2. Produced by such industry.

   Handicraft is less standardized then industrial products, hence less artistic or rather flawless.

3. Used by such industry.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.

4. Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade.

   This is an industrial product—it's much too strong for home use.

5. Massive in scale or quantity.
6. Employed as manpower by such industry.
   • 1913, “There Is Power in a Union”, in Little Red Songbook, performed by Joe Hill:

     Come, all ye workers, from every land, / Come, join in the grand industrial band; / Then we our share of this earth shall demand.

7. (of a society or country) Having many industries; industrialized.
   • 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.

   Italy is a part-industrial, part-rural nation.

8. (music) Belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music.

   a track with clashing industrial beats

Antonyms

• Dow Jones Industrial Average
• nonindustrial
• unindustrial

Derived terms

• industrial arts
• industrial espionage
• industrialism
• industrialize
• industrially
• industrialness
• industrial production
• industrial scale
• industrial school
• industrial strength
• industrial tribunal
• industrial union

 

Related terms

• industrious

Translations

of or relating to industry

• Armenian: արդյունաբերական (hy) (ardyunaberakan)
• Bulgarian: промишлен (bg) (promišlen), индустриален (bg) (industrialen)
• Catalan: industrial (ca)
• Czech: průmyslový (cs) m
• Danish: industriel
• Dutch: industrieel (nl), ^{(please verify)} industrie- (nl) , ^{(please verify)} nijverheids- (nl)
• Esperanto: industria (eo)
• Finnish: teollinen (fi), teollisuus- (fi)
• French: industriel (fr)
• German: industriell (de), Industrie- (de)
• Greek: βιομηχανικός (el) m (viomichanikós)
• Hungarian: ipari (hu)
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• Ido: industriala (io)
• Italian: industriale (it)
• Norman: îndustriel
• Norwegian: industriell
• Persian: صنعتی (fa) (san'ati)
• Polish: przemysłowy (pl)
• Portuguese: industrial (pt)
• Romanian: industrial (ro), de industrie
• Russian: промы́шленный (ru) (promýšlennyj), индустриа́льный (ru) (industriálʹnyj), произво́дственный (ru) (proizvódstvennyj)
• Spanish: industrial (es), fabril (es)
• Swedish: industriell (sv)
• Tagalog: kalalangin

(of a society or country) having many industries

• Armenian: արդյունաբերական (hy) (ardyunaberakan)
• Czech: průmyslový (cs) m
• Dutch: geïndustrialiseerd (nl), industrieel (nl)
• Finnish: teollinen (fi), teollistunut
• German: industriell (de)
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• Greek: βιομηχανικός (el) m (viomichanikós)
• Portuguese: industrial (pt)
• Romanian: industrial (ro) m, industrializat m
• Russian: индустриа́льный (ru) (industriálʹnyj)

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• French: ^{(please verify)} industriel (fr)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} industrial
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• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} పారిశ్రామిక (pāriśrāmika)
• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} dustodik (vo)

Noun

industrial (countable and uncountable, plural industrials)

1. (dated, 19th-mid 20th century) An employee in industry.
2. (business) An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.
3. (finance) A bond or stock issued by such a company.
4. (film) A film made for use within an industry, not for a movie-going audience.
   • 2012, Stuart J. Scesney, How to Enter the Business of Commercial Modeling and Acting Without Getting Ripped Off

     Actor, director, and producer for three decades offers coaching and directing in scenes, improves, cold copy, script analysis, commercials, voice-overs, industrials, film, and stage.

5. (informal, uncountable) Industrial music.

   I wish they'd play more industrial in this club.

6. (informal) An industrial piercing.

Translations

employee

• Finnish: tehdastyöläinen (fi), teollisuustyöntekijä
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enterprise

• Finnish: teollisuusyritys (fi)
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employee

• Finnish: teollisuusosake
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Anagrams

• diurnalist

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [in.dus.tɾiˈal]

Adjective

industrial m or f (masculine and feminine plural industrials)

1. industrial

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Galician

Adjective

industrial m or f (plural industriais)

1. industrial

Further reading

• “industrial”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

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Portuguese

Etymology

Indústria (“industry”) +‎ -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ĩ.duʃ.ˈtɾjaɫ/
• IPA^(key): /ĩ.dus.tɾi.ˈaw/
• Hyphenation: in‧dus‧tri‧al

Adjective

1. industrial

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /indusˈtrjal/

Adjective

industrial m or n (feminine singular industrială, masculine plural industriali, feminine and neuter plural industriale)

1. industrial

Declension

Declension of industrial

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	industrial		industrială	industriali	industriale
	definite	industrialul		industriala	industrialii	industrialele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	industrial		industriale	industriali	industriale
	definite	industrialului		industrialei	industrialilor	industrialelor

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /indusˈtɾjal/ [ĩn̪.d̪usˈt̪ɾjal]
• Hyphenation: in‧dus‧trial

Adjective

industrial m or f (masculine and feminine plural industriales)

1. industrial

Derived terms

• agroindustrial
• complejo militar industrial

Related terms

• industria

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001