Definition of "high tech" [high tech]

• High technology. (noun)
• A style of interior decoration marked by the use of industrial materials, equipment, or design. (noun)

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• "William Marmon of Chevy Chase, Maryland, demands a ruling as soon as possible: Has agnostic—‘holding the belief that the ultimate reality on matters such as the existence of God is unknowable’—been successfully morphed by high tech to mean ‘indifferent’?"
• "The worst thing about automeds, he'd often thought — aside from their resemblance to high tech coffins — was the way the damn things demanded the total surrender of one's dignity."