industrial

See also: Industrial and industriâl

English

Etymology

From French industriel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdʌstɹɪəl/

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Adjective

industrial (comparative more industrial, superlative most industrial)

1. Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.

   The industrial segment of the economy has seen troubles lately.

   • 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:

     Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.

2. Produced by such industry.

   Handicraft is less standardized then industrial products, hence less artistic or rather flawless.

3. Used by such industry.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.

4. Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade.

   This is an industrial product—it's much too strong for home use.

5. Massive in scale or quantity.
6. Employed as manpower by such industry.
   • 1913, “There Is Power in a Union”, in Little Red Songbook, performed by Joe Hill:

     Come, all ye workers, from every land, / Come, join in the grand industrial band; / Then we our share of this earth shall demand.

7. (of a society or country) Having many industries; industrialized.

   Italy is a part-industrial, part-rural nation.

   • 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.

8. (music) Belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music.

   a track with clashing industrial beats

Antonyms

• nonindustrial
• unindustrial

Derived terms

• agroindustrial
• animal-industrial complex
• anti-industrial
• antiindustrial
• bioindustrial
• industrial accident
• industrial action
• industrial arts
• industrial complex
• industrial design
• industrial designer
• industrial design right
• industrial diamond
• industrial disease
• industrial engineering
• industrial espionage
• industrial estate
• industrial-grade
• industrialise
• industrialism
• industrialist
• industrialization
• industrialize
• industrial livestock production
• industrially
• industrial metal
• industrial methylated spirit
• industrialness
• industrial output
• industrial park
• industrial peace
• industrial production
• industrial property
• industrial punk
• industrial quality
• industrial relations
• industrial rock
• industrial scale
• industrial school
• industrial store
• industrial strength
• industrial-strength
• industrial tribunal
• industrial union
• interindustrial
• marriage-industrial complex
• megaindustrial
• microindustrial
• military-industrial complex
• multiindustrial
• postindustrial
• pre-industrial
• prison-industrial complex
• proindustrial
• protoindustrial
• subindustrial
• superindustrial
• technoindustrial

 

Related terms

• industrious

Translations

of or relating to industry

• Armenian: արդյունաբերական (hy) (ardyunaberakan)
• Belarusian: індустрыя́льны (industryjálʹny)
• Bulgarian: промишлен (bg) (promišlen), индустриален (bg) (industrialen)
• Catalan: industrial (ca)
• Czech: průmyslový (cs)
• Danish: industriel
• Dutch: industrieel (nl), ^{(please verify)} industrie- (nl) , ^{(please verify)} nijverheids- (nl)
• Esperanto: industria (eo)
• Finnish: teollinen (fi), teollisuus- (fi)
• French: industriel (fr)
• Friulian: industriâl
• German: industriell (de), Industrie- (de)
• Greek: βιομηχανικός (el) (viomichanikós)
• Hindi: औद्योगिक (hi) (audyogik)
• Hungarian: ipari (hu)
• Ido: industriala (io)
• Italian: industriale (it)
• Kazakh: өндірістік (öndırıstık)
• Lombard: indüstriaal
• Malayalam: വ്യാവസായിക (ml) (vyāvasāyika)
• Marathi: औद्योगिक (audyogik)
• Norman: îndustriel
• Norwegian: industriell
• Persian: صنعتی (fa) (san'ati)
• Polish: przemysłowy (pl), industrialny (pl)
• Portuguese: industrial (pt)
• Romanian: industrial (ro), de industrie
• Russian: промы́шленный (ru) (promýšlennyj), индустриа́льный (ru) (industriálʹnyj), произво́дственный (ru) (proizvódstvennyj)
• Slovak: industriálny
• Spanish: industrial (es), fabril (es)
• Swedish: industriell (sv)
• Tagalog: kalalangin
• Turkish: endüstriyel (tr)
• Ukrainian: промисло́вий (promyslóvyj), індустріа́льний (industriálʹnyj)

(of a society or country) having many industries

• Armenian: արդյունաբերական (hy) (ardyunaberakan)
• Czech: průmyslový (cs)
• Dutch: geïndustrialiseerd (nl), industrieel (nl)
• Finnish: teollinen (fi), teollistunut
• German: industriell (de)
• Greek: βιομηχανικός (el) (viomichanikós)
• Hindi: औद्योगिक (hi) (audyogik)
• Portuguese: industrial (pt)
• Romanian: industrial (ro), industrializat (ro)
• Russian: индустриа́льный (ru) (industriálʹnyj)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} industriel (fr)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} industrial
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} పారిశ్రామిక (pāriśrāmika)
• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} dustodik (vo)

Noun

industrial (countable and uncountable, plural industrials)

1. (dated, 19th-mid 20th century) An employee in industry.
2. (business) An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.
3. (finance) A bond or stock issued by such a company.
4. (film) A film made for use within an industry, not for a movie-going audience.
   • 2012, Stuart J. Scesney, How to Enter the Business of Commercial Modeling and Acting Without Getting Ripped Off:

     Actor, director, and producer for three decades offers coaching and directing in scenes, improves, cold copy, script analysis, commercials, voice-overs, industrials, film, and stage.

5. (informal, uncountable) Short for industrial music.

   I wish they'd play more industrial in this club.

6. (informal) Short for industrial piercing.

Translations

employee

• Finnish: tehdastyöläinen (fi), teollisuustyöntekijä

enterprise

• Finnish: teollisuusyritys (fi)
• Tamil: தொழில்சார் (toḻilcār)

employee

• Finnish: teollisuusosake

Anagrams

• diurnalist

Catalan

Etymology

From indústria +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [in.dus.tɾiˈal]
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

industrial m or f (masculine and feminine plural industrials)

1. industrial

Derived terms

• industrialisme
• industrialista

Further reading

• “industrial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “industrial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “industrial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “industrial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From industria +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /indusˈtɾjal/ [in̪.d̪us̺ˈt̪ɾjɑɫ]
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: in‧dus‧trial

Adjective

industrial m or f (plural industriais)

1. industrial

Derived terms

• industrialismo
• industrialista

Further reading

• “industrial”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English industrial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈdas.trjal/
• Rhymes: -astrjal
• Syllabification: in‧dus‧trial

Noun

industrial m inan

1. (architecture) industrial architecture (objects of industrial and post-industrial architecture)
2. (art) industrial art (aesthetic current in art looking for inspiration in forms associated with industrial civilization)
3. industrial music (noisy, experimental genre of music with transgressive themes)

Declension

Declension of industrial

	singular
nominative	industrial
genitive	industrialu
dative	industrialowi
accusative	industrial
instrumental	industrialem
locative	industrialu
vocative	industrialu

Noun

industrial m inan

1. (slang) industrial piercing (piercing, especially of the upper ear cartilage, in which two pierced holes are connected with a single straight piece of jewelry)

Declension

Declension of industrial

	singular	plural
nominative	industrial	industriale
genitive	industrialu	industriali/industrialów
dative	industrialowi	industrialom
accusative	industrial	industriale
instrumental	industrialem	industrialami
locative	industrialu	industrialach
vocative	industrialu	industriale

Related terms

adjectives

• industrialistyczny
• industrializacyjny
• industrialny

 

adverb

• industrialnie

 

nouns

• industria
• industrializacja
• industrializm
• industrialność

 

verbs

• industrializować impf
• zindustrializować pf

 

Further reading

• industrial in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• industrial in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From indústria (“industry”) +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.dus.tɾiˈaw/ [ĩ.dus.tɾɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.dusˈtɾjaw/ [ĩ.dusˈtɾjaʊ̯]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.dus.tɾiˈaw/ [ĩ.dus.tɾɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.dusˈtɾjaw/ [ĩ.dusˈtɾjaʊ̯]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ĩ.duʃ.tɾiˈaw/ [ĩ.duʃ.tɾɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.duʃˈtɾjaw/ [ĩ.duʃˈtɾjaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.duʃ.tɾiˈal/ [ĩ.duʃ.tɾiˈaɫ], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.duʃˈtɾjal/ [ĩ.duʃˈtɾjaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.duʃ.tɾiˈal/ [ĩ.duʃ.tɾiˈaɫ], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.duʃˈtɾjal/ [ĩ.duʃˈtɾjaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.duʃ.tɾiˈa.li/, (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.duʃˈtɾja.li/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: in‧dus‧tri‧al

Adjective

industrial m or f (plural industriais)

1. industrial

Derived terms

• industrialismo
• industrialista
• industrialmente

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French industriel. By surface analysis, industrie +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /indusˈtrjal/

Adjective

industrial m or n (feminine singular industrială, masculine plural industriali, feminine and neuter plural industriale)

1. industrial

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	industrial		industrială		industriali	industriale
	definite	industrialul		industriala		industrialii	industrialele
genitive- dative	indefinite	industrial		industriale		industriali	industriale
	definite	industrialului		industrialei		industrialilor	industrialelor

Related terms

• industrialism

Spanish

Etymology

From industria +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /indusˈtɾjal/ [ĩn̪.d̪usˈt̪ɾjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: in‧dus‧trial

Adjective

industrial m or f (masculine and feminine plural industriales)

1. industrial

Derived terms

• agroindustrial
• complejo militar industrial
• espionaje industrial
• industrialismo
• industrialista
• industrialmente
• polígono industrial
• preindustrial
• propiedad industrial
• zona industrial

 

Further reading

• “industrial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28