obsolete

(adjective)

no longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected (often by preference for something newer, which replaces the subject).

Related Terms

  • patent
  • distinctiveness

Examples of obsolete in the following topics:

  • Introduction

    • These theories certainly do not become obsolete by any means, but they do need to be used in a very different way to be able to incorporate the attributes of a 21st century learning environment.
  • Half-Life of Knowledge

    • This phenomenon is what Gonzalez refers to as the "half-life" of knowledge - the time span from when knowledge is gained until it becomes obsolete (2004).
  • Introductiont to Releases and Daily Development

    • In fact, that commit really should have been four separate commits: one to fix issue #1729, another to remove obsolete comments and reformat code in BuildDir, another to fix the error check in BuildDir, and finally, one to tweak index.html.
  • Decline

    • Consumer tastes also change, as do new technologies which may make the product become ultimately obsolete (as in the case of CDs and DVDs, and now Blu-Ray).
    • PCs started to become obsolete as laptops, net books, tablets, and smart phones started to enter the market, shifting the emphasis from power to portability.
  • Optional Collaborative Classrom Activity

    • Technology has made the tables basically obsolete.
  • A Market Society

    • During the Market Revolution in the first half of the nineteenth century, traditional modes of commerce were made obsolete by improvements in transportation, communication, and industry.
  • Managing Disbursements

    • Obsolete inventory should be removed immediately.
  • Frederick Taylor

    • Although scientific management as a distinct theory or school of thought was obsolete by the 1930s, most of its themes are still important parts of industrial engineering and management today.
  • Conspicuous Use of Archives

    • The classiest way to handle this is to post a new, more complete set of instructions, and explicitly obsolete the old post by mentioning it:
    • However, I don't know of any archiving software that offers an "obsoleted by" feature, perhaps because it would be mildly tricky to implement in a way that doesn't violate the archives' integrity as a verbatim record.
  • Issue Manager

    • Another thing issue managers do is notice when tickets become obsolete.
    • Finding obsoleted tickets is not easy: the only way to do it systematically is by making a sweep over all the tickets in the database.
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