Meanings
nounscience park (plural science parks)
plural science parks
- An area with a collection of buildings dedicated to scientific research on a business footing.
Cambridge outskirts are all science parks now. Ursula and I went punting below that quaint bridge, where those Biotech Space Age cuboids now sit cloning humans for shady Koreans. Oh, aging is ruddy unbearable!
2004, David Mitchell, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, page 168
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 科學園區 /科学园区
- 科學園區 /科学园区 (kēxué yuánqū)an area with a collection buildings dedicated to scientific research
Danish forskerpark
- forskerparkan area with a collection buildings dedicated to scientific research
Dutch sciencepark
- scienceparkan area with a collection buildings dedicated to scientific research
Finnish tiedepuisto
- tiedepuistoan area with a collection buildings dedicated to scientific research
French parc scientifique
- parc scientifiquean area with a collection buildings dedicated to scientific research
German Wissenschaftspark
- Wissenschaftsparkan area with a collection buildings dedicated to scientific research
Russian технопарк
- технопарк (texnopark)an area with a collection buildings dedicated to scientific research
Spanish parque científico
- parque científicoan area with a collection buildings dedicated to scientific research
Swedish teknikpark
- teknikparkan area with a collection buildings dedicated to scientific research
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