preindustrial
See also: pre-industrial
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom pre- + industrial.
Adjective
editpreindustrial (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the period before the Industrial Revolution and the global industrialisation that followed.
- 2021 January 13, Corey J.A. Bradshaw et al., “Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future”, in Frontiers in Conservation Science[1]:
- Civilization has already exceeded a global warming of ~1.0◦C above pre-industrial conditions[.]
- 2022 November 4, Fiona Harvey, “UN chief warns ‘we will be doomed’ without historic climate pact”, in The Guardian[2]:
- At last year’s summit in Glasgow, countries agreed to focus on limiting global temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, but recent UN reports have shown that current policies would raise temperatures by about 2.5C.
- Not yet industrialized.
- a preindustrial nation
Translations
editbefore industry
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Spanish
editAdjective
editpreindustrial m or f (masculine and feminine plural preindustriales)
Further reading
edit- “preindustrial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014