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state of the art
noun
- the latest and most sophisticated or advanced stage of a technology, art, or science.
state of the art
noun
- the level of knowledge and development achieved in a technique, science, etc, esp at present
adjective
- the most recent and therefore considered the best; up-to-the-minute
a state-of-the-art amplifier
Other Words From
- state-of-the-art adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of state of the art1
Idioms and Phrases
The highest level of development, very up-to-date, as in This new television set reflects the state of the art in screen technology . Despite including the word art , this term originated in technology, and its first recorded use appears in a 1910 book on the gas turbine. Today it is often used adjectivally, as in This is a state-of-the-art camera , and sometimes very loosely, as in That movie is state-of-the-art Woody Allen .Example Sentences
The Home Office said it had launched new specialist police and enforcement plans, including state of the art surveillance technology to disrupt criminal smuggling gangs in northern France.
Intel is currently building a state of the art major fabrication facility in Ohio, which has been labeled the Silicon Heartland.
At the time, Hubble represented the state of the art in imaging the universe, and the photograph a prime example of Hubble's powers.
Computer scientists in Seattle and San Diego have now used this combination to create a model that is capable of predicting climate patterns over 100 years 25 times faster than the state of the art.
That means monitoring the state of the art in image generation and using new examples to improve McAfee’s detection technology.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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