Adjective

(en adjective)

(senseid)At or close to the state of the art.

Enhanced.

Having moved forward in time or space (e.g. advanced ignition timing).

* Hawthorne

a gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles

In a late stage of development; greatly developed beyond an initial stage.

(phonetics) Pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Being between two extremes, or in the middle of a range.

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}