ADVANCED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does advanced mean? 

• ADVANCED (adjective)
  The adjective ADVANCED has 8 senses:

1. farther along in physical or mental development

2. comparatively late in a course of development

3. ahead of the times

4. at a higher level in training or knowledge or skill

5. ahead in development; complex or intricate

6. far along in time

7. (of societies) highly developed especially in technology or industry

8. situated ahead or going before

  Familiarity information: ADVANCED used as an adjective is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADVANCED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Farther along in physical or mental development

Context example:

children in the advanced classes in elementary school read far above grade average

Similar:

precocious (characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Comparatively late in a course of development

Context example:

an advanced state of exhaustion

Similar:

late; later (at or toward an end or late period or stage of development)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Ahead of the times

Synonyms:

advanced; forward-looking; innovative; modern

Context example:

is British industry innovative enough?

Similar:

progressive (favoring or promoting progress)

Sense 4

Meaning:

At a higher level in training or knowledge or skill

Context example:

special seminars for small groups of advanced students at the University

Similar:

high (greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Ahead in development; complex or intricate

Synonyms:

advanced; sophisticated

Context example:

a sophisticated electronic control system

Similar:

hi-tech; high-tech (resembling or making use of highly advanced technology or devices)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Far along in time

Synonyms:

advanced; ripe

Context example:

the ripe age of 90

Similar:

late (being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time)

Sense 7

Meaning:

(of societies) highly developed especially in technology or industry

Context example:

an advanced country technologically

Similar:

civilised; civilized (having a high state of culture and development both social and technological)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Situated ahead or going before

Synonyms:

advance; advanced; in advance

Context example:

at that time the most advanced outpost was still east of the Rockies

Similar:

front (relating to or located in the front)

 Context examples 

Advanced radiologic procedures have enabled the detection of small tumors, resulting in the improvement of the 5-year survival.

(Adrenal Cortex Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is also used with carboplatin to treat advanced non-small cell lung cancer in patients who are not able to have surgery or radiation therapy.

(ABI-007, NCI Dictionary)

A registered nurse prepared in a graduate level adult nurse practitioner program to provide a full range of health care services on the wellness-illness health care continuum at an advanced level to adults.

(Adult Nurse Practitioner, NCI Thesaurus)

Advanced glycosylation end product-specific receptor (404 aa, ~43 kDa) is encoded by the human AGER gene.

(Advanced Glycosylation End Product-Specific Receptor, NCI Thesaurus)

A drug used to reduce the amount of testosterone made in patients with advanced symptomatic prostate cancer for which no other treatment options are available.

(Abarelix, NCI Dictionary)

That study established that daily high doses of certain antioxidants and minerals — called the AREDS formulation — can help slow the progression to advanced AMD.

(Study shows no benefit of omega-3 or other nutritional supplements for cognitive decline, NIH)

According to the team's data, ice advanced from the Aurora Basin and retreated again at least 11 times over the first 20 million years of the ice sheet's history.

(Massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet has history of instability, National Science Foundatio)

Advanced algorithms were then used to tap into the data generated to work out where galaxies were picking up all their matter from.

(Half Our Body's Atoms Could Have Come from Outside The Galaxy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Using a novel patient-specific stem cell-based therapy, researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI) prevented blindness in animal models of geographic atrophy, the advanced dry form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

(Researchers rescue photoreceptors, prevent blindness in animal models of retinal degeneration, National Institutes of Health)

A legal battle over a 10,600-year-old ancient skeleton – called the ‘Spirit Cave Mummy’ – has ended after advanced DNA sequencing found it was related to a Native American tribe.

(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)