The Hindu Editorial (A shot for science) – Feb 03, 2023

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The Hindu Editorial (A shot for science) – Feb 03, 2023

shot (noun) – booster; boost, stimulus, fillip, support.
meet with (phrasal verb) – receive a particular situation.
ease (verb) – facilitate, make easy, assist, help.
bureaucratic (adjective) – relating to a bureaucracy; administrative, official, procedural, red-tape, governmental.
preceding (adjective) – previous, prior, earlier.
seek (verb) – try, aim, attempt.
appease (verb) – satisfy, fulfil, gratify, meet.
swathe (noun) – a wide area of something.
nominal (adjective) – very small, minimal.
Deep Ocean Mission (DOM) (noun) – a mission mode project to support the Blue Economy Initiatives of the Government of India. Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) will be the nodal Ministry implementing this multi-institutional ambitious mission. The Deep Ocean Mission consists of the following six major components.
mission mode project (MMP) (noun) – project that has clearly defined objectives, scopes, and implementation timelines and milestones, as well as measurable outcomes and service levels.
deep-submersible vehicle (DSV) (noun) – a deep-diving crewed submersible (underwater vessel) that is self-propelled.
National Research Foundation (NRF) (noun) – The NRF was formulated, to make the pursuit of science, humanities, art & culture accessible and available in the language one is most comfortable with. This will strengthen the governance structure of the research-related institutions and will improve linkages between R&D, academia, and industry.
substantially (adverb) – considerably, appreciably, significantly.
centre of excellence (noun) – a place where highest standards are followed/observed.
artificial intelligence (AI) (noun) – an area of computer science that deals with giving machines the ability to seem like they have human intelligence (Courtesy: VOA Learning English).
scale up (phrasal verb) – step up, boost, escalate; increase, expand.
sickle cell anaemia (SCD) (noun) – a common inherited blood disorder.
arm (noun) – department, branch, division, section.
Gross domestic product (GDP) (noun) – a measure of economic activity in a country. It is the total value of a country’s annual output of goods and services.
rule of thumb (phrase) – a general estimate. It is not scientific or exact. This expression comes from using body parts as units of measure.
Global Innovation Index (GII) (noun) -The Global Innovation Index (GII) is an evolving project that builds on its previous editions while incorporating newly available data and that is inspired by the latest research on the measurement of innovation. The GII 2022 model includes 132 economies, which represent 94.3% of the world’s population and 99.0% of the world’s GDP in purchasing power parity current international dollars.
hover (verb) – remain at a level.
lack (noun) – absence, unavailability, non-existence, scarcity, shortage.
absorptive capacity (noun) – an organisation’s ability to identify, assimilate, transform, and use external knowledge, research and practice.
scholar (noun) – academic, intellectual, learned person; clever person, intellect.
on time (phrase) – punctually, promptly, timely, when expected, in time.
mire (verb) – involve in a difficulty; mix up, entangle, embroil, catch up.
maze (noun) – complex network, labyrinth, web, tangle.
whimsy (noun) – (fanciful & personal) impulse, urge, notion, idea, vagary, inclination.
incrementally (adverb) – in an incremental way; gradually, in a step-by-step method.
pie (noun) – a whole of something that can be divided into shares.