Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.

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Produced by such industry.

Used by such industry.

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Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade.

Massive in scale or quantity.

Employed as manpower by such industry.

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

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Old soldiers? , passage=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.}}

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

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of postmodernism, especially as represented in art, architecture, literature, science, or philosophy that reacts against an earlier modernism.

* 1937 , John Q. Stewart, "An Astronomer Looks at the Modern Epoch," The Scientific Monthly , vol. 44, no. 5 (May), page 402,

The nearer is a fact to the temporary limits of knoweldge, the more implicated becomes this regression and the more blurred ought to be statement of fact. Bridgman of Harvard recently has emphasized this conclusion, but his postmodern position has as yet made small impression.

* 2001 , Kristen Renwick Monroe, "Paradigm Shift: From Rational Choice to Perspective," International Political Science Review , vol. 22, no. 2. (Apr), page 167 n22,

What I am objecting to is that aspect of postmodern thought that rejects the idea of any objective reality.

* 2005 , Janet R. Barrett, "Planning for Understanding: A Reconceptualized View of the Music Curriculum," Music Educators Journal , vol. 91, no. 4. (Mar), page 25,

For an illustration of the differences between the traditional, positivist curriculum and the more postmodern reconceptualized curriculum, see Hanley and Montgomery.