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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
high-performance
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
▪ The high-performance cars are strictly for the racetrack ... and the message is, going too fast on the roads can kill.
▪ Under the month-long offer, basic models will be £200 cheaper, with the maximum discount on high-performance cars.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the argument against the high-performance machines is not just about safety.
▪ Cypress now plans to concentrate on static RAMs, programmable logic devices and its high-performance niche product lines.
▪ Is the high-performance approach materially different, or is it just a new label for a set of old ideas?
▪ Sport may be taken too seriously; high-performance spectator sport is arguably too central to our lives already.
▪ This opens the way for low-cost and high-performance 64M-bit Flash memory chips based on a 0.4 micron design rule.
▪ This will enable distributed computing over heterogeneous platforms, from workstations and clusters to large-scale, high-performance systems.
Wiktionary
high-performance

a. Having the quality of performing exceptionally well.

WordNet
high-performance

adj. modified to give superior performance; "a high-performance car"

Usage examples of "high-performance".

Although the Iranians call it a 'defensive aviation cruiser,' it's a pure aircraft carrier, designed for high-performance fixed-wing aircraft, not just vertical-takeoff jets or helicopters.

Edward enthusiastically dragged a reluctant Kim around his lab, showing her the mass spectrometer, the high-performance liquid chromatography unit, and the capillary electrophoresis equipment.

But that problem would go away and usher in a new era of manned exploration of the outer Solar Systemwhen the race to develop a dependable, high-performance, pulsed nuclear propulsion system was won, which would bring the typical Mars round-trip down to somewhere around ten days.

With Max Palmer as partner I rounded a fledgling company to design and build new high-performance hang-gliders: craft with wider spans and nose angles, with tighter sails and more battens to camber the roached trailing edges of the airfoil (to be technical for a moment).

It immediately suggests a spoof: one or more of the adversary's high-performance aircraft zoom out of the Caribbean, let's say, into US airspace, penetrating, let's say, a few hundred miles up the Mississippi River until a US air defence radar locks on.