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

Its highly specialized plants excelled in making precision instruments, electronic components and all kinds of high-tech hardware.

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But history suggests that hopes for dramatic policy shifts may be disappointed, and it could well continue to prioritize high-tech manufacturing as geopolitical tensions intensify.

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Beijing now plans to make foreign companies get its permission to export these and most high-tech goods.

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These magnets would then be used in high-tech applications such as motors for electric vehicles, wind turbines and robotics.

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As high-tech as the home may be, it still has the same elegant yet comfortable family vibe that Harris and Burtka added when they lived there with their twins.

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