high-tech
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noun
2.
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
3.
of, pertaining to, or suggesting high-tech or high technology.
Origin:
1970–75; by shortening
1970–75; by shortening
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high-tech definition
Short for “high technology”; the term describes industries and firms that use or produce advanced technology, especially in electronics.
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High-tech
is always a great word to know.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
high-tech definition
A descriptive term for industry heavily dependent on recent laboratory discoveries. Manufacturing computers is a typical high-tech industry.
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Example sentences
These creatures are being pursued by a high-tech wrangler who has traded a horse for a helicopter.
Even true immortality to accomplish this they would have to resemble echinoderms, such as sea urchins, except much more high-tech.
They confirm through high-tech satellite surveillance that it's not hidden on the roof.
The simple torpedo sub, though, may be in for a high-tech makeover too.
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