INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Industrial Revolution mean? 

• INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (noun)
  The noun INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION has 1 sense:

1. the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation

  Familiarity information: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Industrial Revolution; technological revolution

Instance hypernyms:

age; historic period (an era of history having some distinctive feature)

 Context examples 

The researchers noted that previous measurements indicate the amount of mercury in sediments at the bottom of Arctic lakes has increased three to five times since the Industrial Revolution began, which is similar to levels found in lake sediments at lower latitudes.

(Study finds mercury levels in Arctic soils 5 times higher than temperate regions, National Science Foundation)

The new research was led by Nicolas Gruber of ETH Zurich in Switzerland and builds on a 2004 NOAA-led studyoffsite link that found that 118 billion metric tons of carbon were absorbed by the global ocean from the start of the Industrial Revolution in 1800 to 1994.

(Global ocean is absorbing more carbon from fossil fuel emissions, NOAA)

The global ocean absorbed 34 billion metric tons of carbon from the burning of fossil fuels from 1994 to 2007 — a four-fold increase to 2.6 billion metric tons per year when compared to the period starting from the Industrial Revolution in 1800 to 1994.

(Global ocean is absorbing more carbon from fossil fuel emissions, NOAA)