scientific breakthrough

collocation in English

meaningsofscientificandbreakthrough

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scientific
adjective
uk
/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/us
/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/
relating to science, or using the organized methods ...
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breakthrough
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbreɪk.θruː/us
/ˈbreɪk.θruː/
an important discovery or event that helps to improve a situation or provide an answer to ...
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(Definition ofscientificandbreakthroughfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Itsscientificbreakthroughoccurred in the dual context of modernity and the construction of the nation state.
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We cannot tell where a majorscientificbreakthroughmight come.
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Such ascientificbreakthroughcould have a major impact in the future.
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Here was the seed of thescientificbreakthrough.
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However, in two or three years a majorscientificbreakthroughmay be made that will need to be fully debated.
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I must resist the temptation to discuss with him the merits of anyscientificbreakthrough, as he called it.
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But any commercial fish farming on a large-scale must come after the experimental andscientificbreakthrough.
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If this can be repeated, this is an importantscientificbreakthrough.
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Furber believes that significant progress in "either" direction will represent a majorscientificbreakthrough.
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His early published stories would usually feature the extrapolation of a technological innovation orscientificbreakthroughinto the underlying decadence of his own society.
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Thescientificbreakthroughassisted scientists in developing an understanding of the different roles of cells and how they function as the basic operating systems of life.
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Another criticism points out that the process of scientific foreknowledge only works in reverse; few advocates of scientific foreknowledge use sacred texts to predict the nextscientificbreakthrough.
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Talent suggested that moral concerns might be put to rest through a possible futurescientificbreakthrough replicating embryonic stem cells without the use of cloned embryos.
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Events open to a multitude of witnesses generally can not become scoops, (e.g. a natural disaster, or the announcement of ascientificbreakthroughat a press conference).
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