industrial

English

Etymology

From French industriel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdʌstɹɪəl/

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Adjective

industrial (comparative more industrial, superlative most industrial)

1. Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.

   The industrial segment of the economy has seen troubles lately.

   • 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:

     Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.

2. Produced by such industry.

   Handicraft is less standardized then industrial products, hence less artistic or rather flawless.

3. Used by such industry.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎:

     More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.

4. Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade.

   This is an industrial product—it's much too strong for home use.

5. Massive in scale or quantity.
6. Employed as manpower by such industry.
   • 1913, “There Is Power in a Union”, in Little Red Songbook, performed by Joe Hill:

     Come, all ye workers, from every land, / Come, join in the grand industrial band; / Then we our share of this earth shall demand.

7. (of a society or country) Having many industries; industrialized.

   Italy is a part-industrial, part-rural nation.

   • 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.

8. (music) Belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music.

   a track with clashing industrial beats

Antonyms

• nonindustrial
• unindustrial

Derived terms

Related terms

• industrious

Translations

Noun

industrial (countable and uncountable, plural industrials)

1. (dated, 19th-mid 20th century) An employee in industry.
2. (business) An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.
3. (finance) A bond or stock issued by such a company.
4. (film) A film made for use within an industry, not for a movie-going audience.
   • 2012, Stuart J. Scesney, How to Enter the Business of Commercial Modeling and Acting Without Getting Ripped Off:

     Actor, director, and producer for three decades offers coaching and directing in scenes, improves, cold copy, script analysis, commercials, voice-overs, industrials, film, and stage.

5. (informal, uncountable) Short for industrial music.

   I wish they'd play more industrial in this club.

6. (informal) Short for industrial piercing.

Translations

Anagrams

• diurnalist

Catalan

Etymology

From indústria +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian)
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

industrial m or f (masculine and feminine plural industrials)

1. industrial

Derived terms

• industrialisme
• industrialista

Further reading

• “industrial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “industrial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “industrial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “industrial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From industria +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /indusˈtɾjal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: in‧dus‧trial

Adjective

industrial m or f (plural industriais)

1. industrial

Derived terms

• industrialismo
• industrialista

Further reading

• “industrial” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

industrial

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English industrial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈdas.trjal/
• Rhymes: -astrjal
• Syllabification: in‧dus‧trial

Noun

industrial m inan

1. (architecture) industrial architecture (objects of industrial and post-industrial architecture)
2. (art) industrial art (aesthetic current in art looking for inspiration in forms associated with industrial civilization)
3. industrial music (noisy, experimental genre of music with transgressive themes)

Declension

Noun

industrial m inan

1. (slang) industrial piercing (piercing, especially of the upper ear cartilage, in which two pierced holes are connected with a single straight piece of jewelry)

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• industrial in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• industrial in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From indústria (“industry”) +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: in‧dus‧tri‧al

Adjective

industrial m or f (plural industriais)

1. industrial

Derived terms

• industrialismo
• industrialista
• industrialmente

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French industriel. By surface analysis, industrie +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /indusˈtrjal/

Adjective

industrial m or n (feminine singular industrială, masculine plural industriali, feminine and neuter plural industriale)

1. industrial

Declension

Related terms

• industrialism

Spanish

Etymology

From industria +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /indusˈtɾjal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: in‧dus‧trial

Adjective

industrial m or f (masculine and feminine plural industriales)

1. industrial

Derived terms

Further reading

• “industrial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014