intermediate technology

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technology which combines sophisticated ideas with cheap and readily available materials, especially for use in developing countries

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Words nearby intermediate technology

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How to use intermediate technology in a sentence

Complete male reproductive independence would also hinge on artificial womb technology, which also made headlines in 2014.
Men Will Someday Have Kids Without Women|Samantha Allen|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In the absence of cultural shifts, then, new reproductive technology might not matter as much for women as it would for men.
Men Will Someday Have Kids Without Women|Samantha Allen|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Adam Thierer is a senior research fellow with the Technology Policy Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Why Do ‘Progressives’ Want to Ban Uber and AirBnB?|Adam Thierer, Christopher Koopman|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A step-by-step plan to break from your various technology addictions.
Can Self-Help Books Really Make a New You?|Lizzie Crocker|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The technology exists to keep us from ever losing a commercial airliner over open seas ever again.
Red Tape and Black Boxes: Why We Keep ‘Losing’ Airliners in 2014|Clive Irving|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But between the phase of schooling and the phase of adult learning there is an intermediate stage.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
We now proceed to learn the eighteen kings intermediate between William II.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
The instruction ranges from history and geography to practical seamanship, with all the intermediate scientific subjects.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
Fragment, apparently from a columnar mass, of a stone intermediate between clink-stone and compact felspar.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
The Pygmies of the Central African forests seem similarly to occupy an intermediate position in the development of language.
Man And His Ancestor|Charles Morris