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industrial revolution
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industrial revolution also Industrial Revolution
n.
The complex of radical socioeconomic changes, such as the ones that took place in England in the late 18th century, that are brought about when extensive mechanization of production systems results in a shift from home-based hand manufacturing to large-scale factory production.

Industrial Revolution
n
(Historical Terms) the. the transformation in the 18th and 19th centuries of first Britain and then other W European countries and the US into industrial nations
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Noun1.Industrial Revolution - the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation


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