World's Fair/Definition

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A definition or brief description of World's Fair.

An internationally oriented, elaborate public event that commonly covers major new developments in the fields of science, industry and culture, with technology of the future usually a prominent theme, and that serves as an opportunity for countries to showcase their engineering and arts and crafts talents, as well as their cultural ideologies.