STATE-OF-THE-ART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does state-of-the-art mean? 

• STATE-OF-THE-ART (adjective)
  The adjective STATE-OF-THE-ART has 1 sense:

1. the highest level of development at a particular time (especially the present time)

  Familiarity information: STATE-OF-THE-ART used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STATE-OF-THE-ART (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The highest level of development at a particular time (especially the present time)

Context example:

state-of-the-art technology

Similar:

progressive (favoring or promoting progress)

 Context examples 

NCI meetings on state-of-the-art or emerging technologies (Bypass Budget)

(Joining Organizations with Leading Technologies, NCI Thesaurus)

Applying state-of-the-art genome sequencing methods has revealed these novel metabolisms.

(Arsenic-breathing microbes discovered in the tropical Pacific Ocean, National Science Foundation)

But even state-of-the-art artificial leaves, which hold promise in reducing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, only work in the laboratory because they use pure, pressurized carbon dioxide from tanks.

(Artificial Leaves Convert CO2 to Fuel 10 Times More Efficient Than Nature, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Astronomers used state-of-the-art instrumentation to confirm the existence of water and a lack of methane in the planet's atmosphere.

(Water Found in Planet 120 Light Years Away, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This initiative is intended to advance the state-of-the-art in digital mammography displays and workstation design to facilitate clinical acceptance and implementation of digital mammography for improved breast cancer diagnosis.

(Development and Testing of Digital Mammography Displays and Workstations, NCI Thesaurus)

It aims to establish the state-of-the-art in microarray data mining, as well as identify progress and highlight the direction for future effort.

(Critical Assessment of Microarray Data Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)

The Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania seeks the eradication of cancer through relentless progress in basic research, innovative translation of new knowledge through clinical trials, and state-of-the-art compassionate cancer care.

(Abramson Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

Support research to identify existing gaps in communications approaches, identify existing strategies that are effective, and develop and test new and innovative communication strategies that will improve access to and use of state-of-the-art HIV information by all relevant target audiences.

(Expedite Dissemination, NCI Thesaurus)

Using state-of-the-art tools and cell-specific dyes in mice, Matthias Nahrendorf, M.D., Ph.D., professor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and his colleagues were able to distinguish whether immune cells traveling to brain tissue damaged by stroke or meningitis, came from bone marrow in the skull or the tibia, a large legbone.

(Researchers unearth secret tunnels between the skull and the brain, National Institutes of Health)

By comparing the genetic regions to sequences on a state-of-the-art gene chip called NeuroX, the researchers confirmed that 24 variants represent genetic risk factors for Parkinson’s disease, including six variants that had not been previously identified.

(NIH scientists find six new genetic risk factors for Parkinson’s, NIH)