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gigatrend

gigatrend noun: a very major trend.

Noun

gigatrend (plural gigatrends)

  1. A very major trend.
    • Gigatrends: The Boundary Conditions of Modern Life and their Formation1982, Christopher Kaiser, “Course Syllabus: Christianity in a Technological Society”, in Science, Technology & Society, Lehigh University, page 66
    • An evolutionary gigatrend is far more basic and decisive than any trend currently known to managers and economists, including the megatrends popularized by John Naisbitt in the 1980s.1997 February 28, Ervin László with Christopher Laszlo, The Insight Edge: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Evolutionary Management, Westport: Quorum Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page...

Examples of gigatrend in a sentence

  • Certainly, e-government is such a gigatrend[…] being just one of the myriad of evident, tangible ways that the Internet is changing relationships between individuals, businesses, and the government.2003, David C. Wyld, “Transforming Procurement: The Potential of Auctions”, in Mark A. Abramson, Roland S. Harris, editors, The Procurement...
  • This gigatrend is based in part on the notion of a society underpinned by a series of dichotomies between values and empirical facts, and between goals and means, etc.2010 November 30, Jan-Eric Furubo with Ove Karlsson Vestman, “Evaluation: For Public Good or Professional Power?”, in Pearl Eliadis...

Forms of gigatrend

pluralgigatrends

Origin of gigatrend

From giga- + trend, using next larger SI prefix from megatrend.

Questions about gigatrend

What does gigatrend mean?
Gigatrend means a very major trend.
How do you use gigatrend in a sentence?
Certainly, e-government is such a gigatrend[…] being just one of the myriad of evident, tangible ways that the Internet is changing relationships between individuals, businesses, and the government.
What part of speech is gigatrend?
Gigatrend is a noun.
What is the plural of gigatrend?
The plural of gigatrend is gigatrends.

Words near gigatrend in the dictionary

  1. gigastacys
  2. gigaton
  3. gigatonne
  4. gigatonnes
  5. gigatons
  6. gigatrend
  7. gigatrends
  8. gigavolt
  9. gigavolts
  10. gigawatt
  11. gigawatt hour

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