ADVENT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of advent in English

(Definition of advent from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of advent from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of advent

advent
The advent of the gramophone transformed the cultural conditions of contemporary music, including the way it was taught.
The advent of molecular techniques for the detection of malaria parasites has led to greater appreciation of the importance of mixed malarial infections.
With the advent of knowledge-based computer systems, a new interest in the nature of expertise has arisen.
With the advent of small mobile computing devices like handheld computers and smart mobile phones, the range of possible web displays has increased.
Proponents of this approach might claim that in many ways this is similar to the advent of fingerprint files.
The ranks of producers have swelled in recent years with the advent of small, computer-based studios.
With the advent of wide-scale publication of and access to electronically stored information, a class of applications which has become increasingly prominent is question-answering systems.
With the advent of electronics and computer technology in 1950, automation commenced to apply electronics and computer systems to control machines.
However, with the advent of the computer such daunting detail and comprehensiveness is more than readily supported by growing database technology and methodology.
The advent of advanced clinical practice in areas such as simulation adds a further dimension to this trend.
Before the advent of managed care, the physician's obligations were owed almost exclusively to the patient.
With the advent of modern molecular technology, various components of epistatic genetic variance can be separated and jointly estimated with saturated molecular markers.
However, with the advent of scientific organization of labour in the 1920s, hourly wage agreements began to be recorded.
This consensus exploded at the beginning of the seventies with the advent of rational expectations.
With the advent of new powerful technologies, many new loci with deletions, mutations or other abnormalities have been identified in prostate cancer.
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Translations of advent

in Chinese (Traditional)
(事件、發明或人物的)出現,來臨,到來, 降臨節, 將臨期(聖誕節前的四個星期)…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(事件、发明或人物的)出现,来临,到来, 降临节(圣诞节前的四个星期)…
in Spanish
advenimiento, Adviento, llegada…
in Portuguese
advento, Advento, chegada…
in more languages
in Turkish
in French
in Dutch
in Czech
in Danish
in Indonesian
in Thai
in Vietnamese
in Polish
in Swedish
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in Norwegian
in Ukrainian
geliş, ortaya çıkış…
arrivée…
komst…
příchod, nástup…
komme, fremkomst, ankomst…
kedatangan…
การมาถึง…
sự đến…
nastanie…
ankomst…
penciptaan…
das Kommen…
ankomst, inntog, advent…
прихід, прибуття…
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