high technology

noun

: scientific technology involving the production or use of advanced or sophisticated devices especially in the fields of electronics and computers

Examples of high technology in a Sentence

This region has become a center of high technology.

Recent Examples on the Web

Shifting from high technology to fashion, the most common interaction point for consumers with a company like Levi is through retail stores, whose employees are textbook deskless and frontline. —Phil Kirschner, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024

Gallagher is now executive director of 5 Lakes Institute, a nonprofit working to grow the Great Lakes region's high technology entrepreneurial economy and culture. —Kathleen Gallagher, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2024

Who is stealing American high technology and scientific breakthroughs? —Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022

So was there something of high technology that the two nations — Russia, in this case, the Soviet Union, and America could do? —Linah Mohammad, NPR, 6 May 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1964, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

high technology

noun

: technology involving complex devices (as electronics or computers)