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high-tech
[ hahy-tek ]
noun
- a style of interior design using industrial, commercial, and institutional fixtures, equipment, and materials, as metal warehouse shelving, factory lamps, and exposed pipes, or incorporating other elements having the stark, utilitarian appearance characteristic of industrial design.
adjective
- of, relating to, or suggesting high technology.
high tech
high-tech
1- A descriptive term for industry heavily dependent on recent laboratory discoveries. Manufacturing computers is a typical high-tech industry.
high-tech
2- Short for “high technology”; the term describes industries and firms that use or produce advanced technology, especially in electronics.
Word History and Origins
Origin of high-tech1
Example Sentences
“Fully ready for any form of high-tech war,” the regime said of itself in 2009.
So he is stuck in America, making a little scratch doing some research for a high tech company he declined to name.
Garry says the biggest problem with this test is in its high-tech, time-consuming method.
There was no high tech foe in Iraq or Afghanistan, and over Libya, the Raptor was not the right jet for the task.
We must stop these shocking images of an armed America turning high-tech weapons of war on its own citizens.
The high-tech buildings alongside the highway streamed past us.
It was humiliating to be a high-tech cripple and the better the technology worked, the more prone it was to reducing him to tears.
White T-shirts, lightweight trousers, high-tech hiking boots that breathed, a thin jacket for the mosquitoes at dusk.
And again, to help build or modernize 6,000 schools, to get students out of trailers and into high-tech classrooms.
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