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high technology

noun

  1. any technology requiring the most sophisticated scientific equipment and advanced engineering techniques, as microelectronics, data processing, genetic engineering, or telecommunications ( low technology ).


high technology

noun

  1. highly sophisticated, often electronic, techniques used in manufacturing and other processes
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • high-tech·nolo·gy adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of high technology1

First recorded in 1965–70
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Example Sentences

This is particularly true in an age of high technology, when we can less and less hide from a shrinking, claustrophobic world marked by great power competition and pandemics.

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This is not the Israel of high intelligence, high technology, or high performance.

Performance, especially in high-technology products, is improving and costs are being driven downwards.

I've cut Soviet access to high-technology equipment and to agricultural products.

I've been considering the problem of the apparent paradox of a high technology in a ritual-taboo system.

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