high-speed
[hahy-speed]
- designed to operate or operating at a high speed: a high-speed drill.
- Photography. suitable for minimum light exposure: high-speed film; a high-speed lens.
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Origin of high-speed
First recorded in 1870–75
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Related Words
rapid, headlong, high-speed, fast, quick, swift, nonstop, excessive, lightning, precipitate, reckless, speedy, whirlwindExamples from the Web for high-speed
Contemporary Examples
The cops suspended the high-speed pursuit lest some innocent be killed.
This was before France had its network of high-speed trains.
Thankfully, I have a high-speed Internet connection, so my doom window was but fleeting.
An expansion of high-speed Internet access, to improve social-media infrastructure and provide thousands of new (celebrity) jobs.
Last year, I also pledged to connect 99 percent of our students to high-speed broadband over the next four years.
Full Text of President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union AddressJanuary 29, 2014
Historical Examples
But the old buck he seemed to be on the high-speed gear himself.
With Trapper Jim in the North WoodsLawrence J. Leslie
He had to train launching-crews to work like high-speed machinery.
Talents, IncorporatedWilliam Fitzgerald Jenkins
Then from the little cove came the muffled cough of a high-speed motor.
El DiabloBrayton Norton
Many schemes are afoot for the construction of high-speed railways.
The Romance of Modern InventionArchibald Williams
What is needed, in the high-speed machine, is a power to vary its pace.
The AeroplaneClaude Grahame-White and Harry Harper
high-speed
- employing or requiring a very short exposure timehigh-speed film
- recording or making exposures at a rate usually exceeding 50 and up to several million frames per second
- working, moving, or operating at a high speed
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