TECH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tech mean? 

• TECH (noun)
  The noun TECH has 1 sense:

1. a school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences

  Familiarity information: TECH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TECH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

tech; technical school

Hypernyms ("tech" is a kind of...):

school (an educational institution)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tech"):

engineering school; polytechnic; polytechnic institute (a technical school offering instruction in many industrial arts and applied sciences)

 Context examples 

Some are high-tech tools, such as computers.

(Assistive Devices, NIH)

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)

Electronic items like computers may have given you difficulties too, and you may have needed a repair or had to be on the phone with techs to help you untangle the problem.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The technology, which features a unique graphene and gold-based platform and high-tech imaging, monitors the fate of stem cells by detecting genetic material (RNA) involved in turning such cells into brain cells (neurons).

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

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)

The revolutionary tech discoveries of the next few decades, the ones that will change daily life, may come from new materials so small they make nanomaterials look like behemoths.

(Picoscience and a plethora of new materials, National Science Foundation)

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)

But even if the tech gets perfected, automakers are still struggling with the current limitations of electronic vehicles, namely their limited range per charge.

(Tesla to Test Self-driving Electric Trucks, VOA News)

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)

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)