HIGH-TECH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high-tech mean? 

• HIGH-TECH (adjective)
  The adjective HIGH-TECH has 1 sense:

1. resembling or making use of highly advanced technology or devices

  Familiarity information: HIGH-TECH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH-TECH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling or making use of highly advanced technology or devices

Synonyms:

hi-tech; high-tech

Similar:

advanced; sophisticated (ahead in development; complex or intricate)

Antonym:

low-tech (not involving high technology)

Derivation:

high technology (highly advanced technological development (especially in electronics))

 Context examples 

The platform, combined with high-tech imaging, detects genes and characterizes different kinds of stem cells with greater reliability, selectivity and sensitivity than today's biosensors.

(Better biosensor technology created for stem cells, National Science Foundation)

Some are high-tech tools, such as computers.

(Assistive Devices, NIH)

Several high-tech companies are teaming up on a plan to put a mobile phone network on the moon next year.

(Moon to Get Its Own Mobile Network, VOA)

Using high-tech sensors and automated feeding equipment, scientists developed the feeding system to help answer the difficult question of why calorie-restricted diets improve longevity.

(Eating at 'Wrong Time' Affects Body Weight, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A high-tech company called Merlin Burrows believes it might have finally pinpointed the remains of the mythical city of Atlantis where it once stood.

(Researchers Claim to Have Found Mythical City of Atlantis in Spain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Scientists from The University of Texas at Dallas and Hanyang University in South Korea developed high-tech yarns that generate electricity when they are stretched or twisted.

(Energy-Harvesting Yarns Generate Electricity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Uranus rules computers, software, and all things high-tech, so this is a possible area of concern, and Murphy’s Law—“If anything can go wrong, it will”—will surely be at play.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Researchers using a high-tech aerial mapping scanner have discovered the ruins of tens of thousands of ancient Mayan structures that have been hidden and preserved for centuries under northern Guatemala's thick jungle.

(Hidden Mayan Civilization Revealed in Guatemala Jungle, VOA)

Answers to Buruli ulcers, MRSA and other antibiotic-resistant infections may lie not in a high-tech lab, but in ancient rocks forged in a hot zone: Oregon's once—and perhaps future—volcanoes.

(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)

Geoscientists at the University of South Florida have successfully developed and tested a new high-tech shallow water buoy that can detect the small movements and changes in the Earth's seafloor that may be precursors to deadly natural hazards, such as earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis.

(Geoscientists develop technology to improve forecasting of earthquakes, tsunamis, National Science Foundation)