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high-tech
[hahy-tek]
noun
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
of, relating to, or suggesting high technology.
high tech
noun
a variant spelling of hi tech
high-tech
1Short for “high technology”; the term describes industries and firms that use or produce advanced technology, especially in electronics.
high-tech
2A descriptive term for industry heavily dependent on recent laboratory discoveries. Manufacturing computers is a typical high-tech industry.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of high-tech1
Example Sentences
The high-tech classrooms themselves are rebranded as “learning studios” and will function much like college lecture halls.
China has a near monopoly on extracting and refining rare earth minerals, which are critical to manufacturing many high-tech and green products.
What lessons can we draw for other high-tech ventures?
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.
These are just some of the nightmarish scenarios that experts warn could come true if the US's dated and limited defence systems were overwhelmed in a future high-tech attack.
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