industrial

adjective more industrial · most industrial

1. Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing. The industrial segment of the economy has seen troubles lately.
2. Produced by such industry. Handicraft is less standardized then industrial products, hence less artistic or rather flawless.
3. Used by such industry. More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
4. Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade. This is an industrial product—it's much too strong for home use.
5. Massive in scale or quantity.
6. Employed as manpower by such industry. Come, all ye workers, from every land, / Come, join in the grand industrial band; / Then we our share of this earth shall demand.
7. of a society or country Having many industries; industrialized. Italy is a part-industrial, part-rural nation.
8. Belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music. a track with clashing industrial beats

Opposite: nonindustrial, unindustrial

noun industrials

1. countable, dated, obsolete, uncountable An employee in industry.
2. countable, uncountable An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.
3. countable, uncountable A bond or stock issued by such a company. A very short time later a terrible line in a financial daily—"Consols weak"—caught his agitated eye. Consols were precipitately abandoned and a "sound industrial" took their place.
4. countable, uncountable A film made for use within an industry, not for a movie-going audience. Actor, director, and producer for three decades offers coaching and directing in scenes, improves, cold copy, script analysis, commercials, voice-overs, industrials, film, and stage.
5. abbreviation, ellipsis, informal, uncountable Ellipsis of industrial music I wish they'd play more industrial in this club.
6. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, informal, uncountable Ellipsis of industrial piercing

proper noun

1. An unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia, United States.
2. A township in Saginaw, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.