polytechnic
1 of 2adjective
poly·tech·nic ˌpä-lē-ˈtek-nik 
: relating to or devoted to instruction in many technical arts or applied sciences
polytechnic
2 of 2noun
: a polytechnic school
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web
Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022 Bombs hit the gym next to the polytechnic university. Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022 Last November, then-CSU Chancellor Timothy White asked Humboldt State to lay out all the details required to become a polytechnic institution. Omar Shaikh Rashad, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 July 2021 Dixie State officials to reconsider polytechnic moniker. Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 June 2021 The 23-campus Cal State system would receive $5.2 billion, including $458 million to transition Humboldt State to a polytechnic campus focused on science, technology, engineering and math. Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2021 At UW-Stout, the system's polytechnic university, getting back to in-person learning is particularly important because of the number of hands-on, technical courses students take. Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2020 Anthony Ocampo, a sociologist and associate professor at Cal Poly Pomona, a polytechnic university in California, explained that the headline also frames the outbreak in a dehumanizing way. NBC News, 8 Feb. 2020 The public polytechnic university, east of Los Angeles, has more than 25,000 undergraduate and graduate students. CBS News, 29 June 2018 Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022 It’s the third polytechnic in the state and the first of the 21st century. Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022 The change was initiated by former Chancellor Timothy White in 2020, who asked the university to explore the possibility of evolving into a polytechnic. Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022 My father is my mother’s professor at the polytechnic. Irina Dumitrescu, Longreads, 17 Nov. 2021 The intake of British students at institutions in the post-1992 group of universities, former polytechnics which offered vocational qualifications, is flat. The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019 Today, Lycée Saint-Exupéry has been enlarged into a polytechnic, the original school supersized with new buildings, while the surrounding neighborhood now looks a shambles. Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019 But there is the danger that the costs will be so high that the university may have to centralize services, narrow its mission and become more like a polytechnic institute. Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 1 May 2018 In fact, no Nigerian university or polytechnic even has a planetarium. Tade Ipadeola, Slate Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017 See More
Adjective
Cal State’s polytechnic universities offer broader hands-on opportunities in STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and math — than other Cal State campuses. Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022 Bombs hit the gym next to the polytechnic university. Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022 Last November, then-CSU Chancellor Timothy White asked Humboldt State to lay out all the details required to become a polytechnic institution. Omar Shaikh Rashad, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 July 2021 Dixie State officials to reconsider polytechnic moniker. Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 June 2021 The 23-campus Cal State system would receive $5.2 billion, including $458 million to transition Humboldt State to a polytechnic campus focused on science, technology, engineering and math. Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2021 At UW-Stout, the system's polytechnic university, getting back to in-person learning is particularly important because of the number of hands-on, technical courses students take. Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2020 Anthony Ocampo, a sociologist and associate professor at Cal Poly Pomona, a polytechnic university in California, explained that the headline also frames the outbreak in a dehumanizing way. NBC News, 8 Feb. 2020 The public polytechnic university, east of Los Angeles, has more than 25,000 undergraduate and graduate students. CBS News, 29 June 2018 Noun
Humboldt said one reason for a third polytechnic is to expand capacity for qualified applicants beyond the limited number accepted at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Cal Poly Pomona. Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022 It’s the third polytechnic in the state and the first of the 21st century. Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022 The change was initiated by former Chancellor Timothy White in 2020, who asked the university to explore the possibility of evolving into a polytechnic. Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022 My father is my mother’s professor at the polytechnic. Irina Dumitrescu, Longreads, 17 Nov. 2021 The intake of British students at institutions in the post-1992 group of universities, former polytechnics which offered vocational qualifications, is flat. The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019 Today, Lycée Saint-Exupéry has been enlarged into a polytechnic, the original school supersized with new buildings, while the surrounding neighborhood now looks a shambles. Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019 But there is the danger that the costs will be so high that the university may have to centralize services, narrow its mission and become more like a polytechnic institute. Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 1 May 2018 In fact, no Nigerian university or polytechnic even has a planetarium. Tade Ipadeola, Slate Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017 See More Word History
Etymology
Adjective
French polytechnique, from Greek polytechnos skilled in many arts, from poly- + technē art — more at technical
First Known Use
Adjective
1798, in the meaning defined above
Noun
1836, in the meaning defined above