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polytechnical

polytechnical adjective: polytechnic.

Adjective

polytechnical (not comparable)

  1. polytechnic

Noun

polytechnical (plural polytechnicals)

  1. polytechnic (educational institute)
    • By 1968 the majority of secondary polytechnicals and some of the eight-year schools had begun to do so, the figures being to some extent representative of the stage of development of the region concerned.1973, Arthur Hearnden, Paths to university: preparation, assessment, selection, page 61

Forms of polytechnical

pluralpolytechnicals

Origin of polytechnical

From poly- + technical.

Questions about polytechnical

What does polytechnical mean?
Polytechnical means polytechnic.
What part of speech is polytechnical?
Polytechnical can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near polytechnical in the dictionary

  1. polytans
  2. polytarp
  3. polytarps
  4. polytech
  5. polytechnic
  6. polytechnical
  7. polytechnically
  8. polytechnicals
  9. polytechnician
  10. polytechnicians
  11. polytechnics

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