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high-power

high-power \high-power\ high-powered \high-powered\adj.

  1. vigorously energetic or forceful. high-powered executives

    Syn: high-octane, high-voltage.

  2. capable of a high degree of magnification; -- used of optical instruments such as microscopes or telescopes. a high-powered microscope

WordNet
high-power

adj. vigorously energetic or forceful; "a high-octane sales manager"; "a high-octane marketing plan"; "high-powered executives"; "a high-voltage theatrical entrepreneur" [syn: high-octane, high-powered, high-voltage, high-energy]

Usage examples of "high-power".

I was working at the laboratory where the first high-power lasers were invented.

Even before he crashed the screens his own defensive zones burst into furiously coruscant activity, and through that flame there came tearing the metallic slugs of a high-power machine rifle.

Limited as it was, the electron microscope was their only available high-power tool.

The surface seemed so shiny and unblemished that I had no reason to magnify it, but once having thought of my old Leitz with its splendid high-power oil-immersion lens, I reconsidered.

Must be some kind of new-fangled high-power incendiary bomb to melt steel down like butter.

Brigid theorized the affected area was regularly subjected to short bursts of high-power microwave radiation.

At L--, however, their object became plain, for a high-power car was awaiting us, and into this we hurried and ere the greater number of passengers had reached the platform were being driven off at headlong speed along the moon-bathed roads.

Instead, he had to go into the high-power module, the deputies watching him on remote cameras.

Two new systems gave the capability for transmissions while in FTL flight: a sublight emergency channel, SOLEC, which allowed a computer-generated message to contact certain mapped nodes, and the high-power FTL link which transmitted to mapped stations.