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industrial revolution

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.33 in modern English

Syllables
in-dus-tri-al rev-o-lu-tion
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
7
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

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The major technological, socioeconomic and cultural change in the late 18th and early 19th century resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labour to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture.

Example Sentences

Inflected Forms

the Industrial Revolution (canonical)

Phrases

Fourth Industrial Revolution

Questions

What does industrial revolution mean?
The major technological, socioeconomic and cultural change in the late 18th and early 19th century resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labour to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture.

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