Regular maintenance of the laboratory equipment ensures accurate measurements and prevents costly breakdowns during experiments.
实验室设备的定期维护可确保测量准确，并防止实验期间发生代价高昂的故障。
The article begins by acknowledging that automation has eliminated many manufacturing jobs, but it spends the bulk of its length arguing that automation has also created new categories of employment in fields like robotics maintenance and software design.
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A city compared the number of streetlights repaired per month before and after switching to a new maintenance contractor:
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While wind turbine blade length has roughly tripled over the past three decades, the primary driver of falling wind energy costs has actually been improvements in predictive maintenance software, which reduces costly unplanned downtime far more than blade length increases alone would predict.
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Which choice best defines “maintenance”?
A — The process of keeping something in good condition. “maintenance” means the process of keeping something in good condition.
Which word means “the process of keeping something in good condition”?
B — maintenance. “maintenance” means the process of keeping something in good condition.
maintenance — the process of keeping something in good condition. In Chinese: 维护，保养.
maintenance is pronounced /ˈmeɪntənəns/.
Regular maintenance of the laboratory equipment ensures accurate measurements and prevents costly breakdowns during experiments. (实验室设备的定期维护可确保测量准确，并防止实验期间发生代价高昂的故障。)
upkeep, repair, servicing — all close in meaning to maintenance (the process of keeping something in good condition).
neglect, deterioration — each the opposite of maintenance (the process of keeping something in good condition).
Yes. maintenance is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.