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transition technology

transition technology noun: a technology that is designed to aid and encourage the transition from a society's current way of doing things to a more desirable (usually more environmentally sustainable) technological approach.

Noun

transition technology (plural transition technologies)

  1. A technology that is designed to aid and encourage the transition from a society's current way of doing things to a more desirable (usually more environmentally sustainable) technological approach.
    • The limited-range plug-in option provides a viable transition technology toward a hydrogen refueling infrastructure.2004 March, GJ Suppes, S Lopes, CW Chiu, “Plug-in fuel cell hybrids as transition technology to hydrogen infrastructure”, in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, volume 29, number 4
    • The proposed sociotechnical transition technology roadmap accurately captured the key elements of the BFR project it was benchmarked against and even identified key elements that were not included in the BFR methodology.2021, Petrus T Letaba, Marthinus W Pretorius, “Toward sociotechnical transition technology roadmaps: a proposed framework for large-scale projects in developing countries”, in IEEE Transactions on...

Forms of transition technology

pluraltransition technologies

Questions about transition technology

What does transition technology mean?
Transition technology means a technology that is designed to aid and encourage the transition from a society's current way of doing things to a more desirable (usually more environmentally sustainable) technological approach.
What part of speech is transition technology?
Transition technology is a noun.
What is the plural of transition technology?
The plural of transition technology is transition technologies.

Words near transition technology in the dictionary

  1. transition state
  2. transition states
  3. transition strip
  4. transition strips
  5. transition technologies
  6. transition technology
  7. transition temperature
  8. transition temperatures
  9. transition time
  10. transition times
  11. transition town

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