Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A technologically advanced city, or one heavily involved in mechanised manufacture of goods, especially of microelectronics.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From techno- (“hi-tech, computerised”) + -polis (“city”).

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word technopolis.

Examples

  • International Center for Automotive Research, a 250 acre "technopolis" where BMW, Michelin,

    Latest News from SYS-CON MEDIA 2010

  • Singapore, gearing up for its mid-90s boom, was a futuristic technopolis of networked transportation flows and identikit malls, with an authoritarian approach to public policing.

    Zero History by William Gibson 2010

  • Navy lost control during an aerobatics show in the skies over the technopolis this morning and barrelled into a congested residential

    WN.com - Articles related to Technology leap forecast for cameras in cellphones 2010

  • Watching 8-12 year old robot makers at the junior robotics cup technopolis.

    Strategy Innovation Blog Futurelab 2010

  • It is easy to dislike India's technology heartland, the city that lets Swamy live his dream; the pensioner's-paradise-turned-technopolis that led his country to the centre of the flat world.

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2010

  • It is easy to dislike India's technology heartland, the city that lets Swamy live his dream; the pensioner's-paradise-turned-technopolis that led his country to the centre of the flat world.

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2010

  • SHIFT (6) Afrophile adj. decorative aposelene projectual diplotene, aposelenium psychedelicize, adj. biotron v. dirty quadriphony quadriphonics dustoff reticulosis punch-up technopolis quantized, skim INITIAL AFFIXATIONS (20) adj.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1 1988

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.