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Definition of Polytechnic
1. Noun. A technical school offering instruction in many industrial arts and applied sciences.
Definition of Polytechnic
1. 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.
Definition of Polytechnic
1. Adjective. that teaches applied arts and sciences rather than academic subjects ¹
2. Noun. An educational institute that teaches applied arts and sciences rather than academic subjects ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Polytechnic
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polytechnic
Literary usage of Polytechnic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1904)
"The Co-ordination of polytechnic Schools S. EDWARD WARREN, CE, ... So long ago
as 1866, in a pamphlet entitled Notes on polytechnic or Scientific Schools, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In Germany the polytechnic or technische Hochschule is an institution of university
type in which the education has special reference to industrial purposes ..."
3. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"Rensselaer polytechnic Institute, located at Troy, NY It was founded by Stephen
Van Rensselaer in 1824 as a school of practical science, being the first ..."
4. Addresses and Proceedings by National Education Association of the United States, National Teachers' Association (U.S.)., American Normal School Association, Central College Association (1904)
"The exhibit of Bradley polytechnic Institute is significant, first, because Bradley
... Bradley polytechnic Institute, founded by Mrs. Lydia Bradley, ..."
5. Science and Art: Systems, Institutions and Statistics of Scientific by Henry Barnard (1872)
"Tlie plan on which the polytechnic School at Munich is now organized, ...
Admission into the polytechnic School is only granted to those who can produce a ..."
6. Municipal and Institutional Libraries of Indiana: History, Conditon and by William Elmer Henry, Indiana Louisiana purchase exposition commission (1904)
"THE LIBRARY OF THE ROSE polytechnic INSTITUTE. The Library of the Rose polytechnic
Institute was founded in connection with the college of that name in the ..."
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