high tech

UK: /ˌhaɪˈtɛk/

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

ˈhigh-ˈtech,  n. [uncountable]

1. high technology.
2. Furniture a style of design for the interior of a house, apartment, office, etc., using or resembling materials or designs found in industry.

adj. [before a noun]

3. Furniture relating to or suggesting high-tech:
   high-tech office design.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

high-tech  (hī′tek′), n. 

1. See high technology. 
2. Furniture 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.

adj. 

3. Furniture of, pertaining to, or suggesting high-tech or high technology.

• by shortening 1970–75

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

hi tech, high tech / tɛk/ noun

1. short for high technology
2. a style of interior design using features of industrial equipment

adjective hi-tech, high-tech

1. designed for or using high technology
2. of or in the interior design style
   Compare low tech

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

high-tech, hi-tech, hi tec, high-technology adjective (of software, electronics, etc) extremely advanced and highly sophisticated