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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

“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

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.

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of high-tech1

First recorded in 1970–75; by shortening
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The high-tech classrooms themselves are rebranded as “learning studios” and will function much like college lecture halls.

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All seven floors of a recently constructed high-tech computer science building at USC were affected by an overnight water leak this week, an official said.

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