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ob·so·les·cent

(ŏb′sə-lĕs′ənt)

adj.

1. Being in the process of passing out of use or usefulness; becoming obsolete.

2. Biology Becoming reduced during the course of evolution; vestigial or nearly vestigial. Used of an organ or other part of an organism.

[Latin obsolēscēns, obsolēscent-, present participle of obsolēscere, to fall into disuse : ob-, away; see ob- + solēre, to be accustomed to.]

ob′so·les′cence n.

ob′so·les′cent·ly adv.

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obsolescent

(ˌɒbsəˈlɛsənt)

adj

becoming obsolete or out of date

[C18: from Latin obsolescere; see obsolete]

ˌobsoˈlescence n

ˌobsoˈlescently adv

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ob•so•les•cent

(ˌɒb səˈlɛs ənt)

adj.

becoming obsolete; passing out of use, as a word.

[1745–55; < Latin obsolēscere to fall into disuse. See obsolete, -escent]

ob`so•les′cence, n.

ob`so•les′cent•ly, adv.

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Adj.

obsolescent - becoming obsolete

noncurrent - not current or belonging to the present time

obsolescent

adjective outdated, passé, old-fashioned, declining, waning, out of date, dying out, unfashionable, antiquated, on the way out, outmoded, on the wane, on the decline, becoming obsolete, behind the times, out of style, past its prime, démodé (French), out of the ark (informal), not with it (informal) outmoded, obsolescent equipment

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Translations

forældet

veraltet

obsolescent vieilli

elavulófélben levõ

sem er úreltur

che sta cadendo in disuso

nykimasnykstantis

novecojis

zastarávajúci

modası geçmiş

荒废的逐渐被废弃的

obsolescent

[ˌɒbsəˈlesnt] ADJ → que está cayendo en desuso
to be obsolescent → estar cayendo en desuso

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obsolescent

[ˌɒbsəˈlɛs^ənt] adj [equipment, machine] → obsolescent(e), obsolète

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obsolescent

adj → allmählich außer Gebrauch kommend; to be obsolescent → anfangen zu veralten; (machine, process etc) → technisch (fast) überholt sein

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obsolescent

[ˌɒbsəˈlɛsnt] adj → obsolescente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

obsolescent

(obsəˈlesnt) adjective

going out of use. obsolescent slang.

ˌobsoˈlescence noun

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Let the dictionary (for example) mark a good word as "obsolete" or "obsolescent" and few men thereafter venture to use it, whatever their need of it and however desirable its restoration to favor -- whereby the process of improverishment is accelerated and speech decays.

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A note prepared by Downing Street aide Mary Francis shows he suggested that it might be possible to abolish the idea of the 9pm watershed, which he felt was "becoming obsolescent in the age of time-shifting video recording".

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A review of Iran's weapons shows that many of them are "obsolete, obsolescent, or of relatively low quality," according to a 2018 report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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Working to mitigate obsolescence challenges by creating local fabrication shops, leveraging eBay for obsolescent parts and upgrading older technologies.

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If the nation-state becomes obsolescent over time, it may be replaced by another political configuration, which may be regional states or small groupings, becoming so because of increasing economic transactions among them.

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In Great Britain, Thorsager did most of his flying in Hurricanes and Spitfires, a significant step up from the obsolescent Gladiators he had flown before the war.

Viking Spitfire: The Story of Finn Thorsager

Among the topics are medieval wills and the rise of written monolingual English, radical word order change by substratal causation: English versus German, late medieval dialectal and obsolescent spellings in the 16th-century editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes, and the status of may in Middle English medical writing: evidence from Middle English Medical Texts and the M[sz]laga Corpus of Late Middle English Scientific Prose.

Approaches to Middle English: Variation, Contact and Change

Uklariski's revival of this obsolescent process points to a nostalgia for the aggressive "breakthrough" days when photography actually was avant-garde.