state of the art is a noun meaning "the highest degree of development of an art or technique at a particular time". It carries one recorded sense.
the highest degree of development of an art or technique at a particular time
“the state of the art in space travel”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for state of the art come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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