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

Example Sentences

But the danger for Ukraine, Zaluzhniy said, is that its undermanned army could reach a point of exhaustion unless it can take back the initiative in the high-tech drone war.

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The episode also underscores a broader contradiction in modern wellness culture, one where celebrities chase high-tech insights into their own health while simultaneously shaping how audiences interpret those results.

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Snap joins Meta, Google and Apple in trying to shape the future of computing with the release of high-tech glasses.

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South Korea, under Lee, has set up a roughly $102 billion “National Growth Fund” for investments over the next five years in high-tech strategic industries, including AI.

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Toner-Rodgers’s work offered a surprising and even hopeful revelation about our high-tech future.

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