high-speed

[hahy-speed]

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adjective

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 whirlwind

Examples from the Web for high-speed

Contemporary Examples

The cops suspended the high-speed pursuit lest some innocent be killed.
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This was before France had its network of high-speed trains.
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Thankfully, I have a high-speed Internet connection, so my doom window was but fleeting.
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An expansion of high-speed Internet access, to improve social-media infrastructure and provide thousands of new (celebrity) jobs.
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Last year, I also pledged to connect 99 percent of our students to high-speed broadband over the next four years.
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January 29, 2014

Historical Examples

But the old buck he seemed to be on the high-speed gear himself.
With Trapper Jim in the North Woods
Lawrence J. Leslie
He had to train launching-crews to work like high-speed machinery.
Talents, Incorporated
William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Then from the little cove came the muffled cough of a high-speed motor.
El Diablo
Brayton Norton
Many schemes are afoot for the construction of high-speed railways.
The Romance of Modern Invention
Archibald Williams
What is needed, in the high-speed machine, is a power to vary its pace.
The Aeroplane
Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper

British Dictionary definitions for high-speed

high-speed

adjective photog

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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