toolmaking
noun[U]
PRODUCTION(alsotool making)uk/ˈtuːlˌmeɪkɪŋ/ustheactivityofproducingtools:
atoolmakingfactory/workshop
thetoolmakingindustry
Some of thematerialswereunsuitablefortoolmaking.
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The book surveys archaeological evidence for the origins of man and traces the development oftoolmakingand the spread of agriculture.
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Most theories see language as helping how tools are used, andtoolmakingand tool use as learned.
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The above considerations do not, however, imply that symmetry has played no part in the process oftoolmaking.
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Wolpert thinks that asymmetry may have evolved in the context of complex motor skills such astoolmakingbecause it permits cooperation rather than competition between the hemispheres.
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The step up to stagedtoolmaking(first shape a core, then knock off flakes) at 400,000 years ago is far more impressive as evidence of enhanced cognition.
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Indeed, there is no compelling archaeological reason to granttoolmakingany special place in the selective forces directing the first three million years of human cognitive evolution.
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He had to understand electronics; he had to do some plumbing, carpentry andtoolmaking.
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We have worked with thetoolmakingindustry to encourage firms to benchmark themselves against the best in the world.
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Toolmakingto-day is skilled and laborious work, and these automatic machines will need skilled men to make them, skilled men to operate them, and skilled men to maintain them.
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This was followed by a sudden flowering of finetoolmaking, sophisticated weaponry, sculpture, cave painting, body ornaments, and long-distance trade.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The themes that united these various lines of business were the crafts oftoolmakingand instrument-making, which have often overlapped technologically.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These experiences intoolmaking, metrology, and manufacturing steeped him in the 19th-century zeitgeist of interchangeability.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Mechanical engineering andtoolmakingwere the main industries practised within the town.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This form oftoolmakingis a topic of interest in anthropology.
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