high-tech

Informal, hi-tech

[hahy-tek]

noun

1. high technology.

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

1. of, relating to, or suggesting high technology.

high tech

noun

1. a variant spelling of hi tech

high-tech

¹

1. Short for “high technology”; the term describes industries and firms that use or produce advanced technology, especially in electronics.

high-tech

²

1. A descriptive term for industry heavily dependent on recent laboratory discoveries. Manufacturing computers is a typical high-tech industry.

Word History and Origins

Origin of high-tech¹

First recorded in 1970–75; by shortening

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