state of the art

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noun

the latest and most sophisticated or advanced stage of a technology, art, or science.

Origin:
1960–65

Related forms

state-of-the-art, adjective

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state of the art

—n
1.	the level of knowledge and development achieved in a technique, science, etc, esp at present

—*adj*
2.	the most recent and therefore considered the best; up-to-the-minute: a state-of-the-art amplifier

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state of the art

The highest level of development, very up-to-date, as in This new television set reflects the state of the art in screen technology. Despite including the word art, this term originated in technology, and its first recorded use appears in a 1910 book on the gas turbine. Today it is often used adjectivally, as in This is a state-of-the-art camera, and sometimes very loosely, as in That movie is state-of-the-art Woody Allen.

Example sentences

They may not be state of the art, but they're not chopped liver, either.

Five to three thousand years ago cuneiform was state of the art.

But given the state of the art, his team told him, that was impossible.

Readers interested in the state of the art on the galactic center should read

through the overall thread.

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