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low-tech
Word definitions for low-tech in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not involving high technology [ant: high-tech ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
low-tech \low-tech\ adj. not involving high technology; using long-established technology. Opposite of high-tech .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ He uses low-tech theatrical devices to great effect. ▪ The company manufactures the low-tech parts in Mexico, and then assembles here. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A low-tech solution to a high-tech threat. ▪ And their ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. simple, uncomplicated, primitive, not involving advanced technology.
Usage examples of low-tech.
The Stolsh, limited by complacency and the kind of cultural technophobia associated with most low-tech worlds, had little better.
The attack was low-tech in nature, just some bad guys with light automatic weapons.
Despite the range of computerized equipment on the dock, from overhead-tracking forklifts that could shift multi-ton reactor cores to tweezerlike micromanipulators capable of extracting the black specks of monocloned seed stock from radiation-resistant transport gel, there was still a need for the kind of sheer muscle mass that could break open a wooden packing crate from one of the low-tech trading worlds.
It was easily the clunkiest and most low-tech component of the SSL-basically just a big airless can with mirrors in it and a big lens in front.
The story may have evolved from an older, low-tech version that cropped up some 20 years ago, in which the pet crawls into a gas oven or a clothes dryer for a nap, only to get roasted next time the appliance is used.
And may the Prophets ensure that neither the planetary sensors nor the spoon-heads will think to check the electromagnetic spectrum for low-tech radio broadcasts, breathed Joson Wabak silently.
Perhaps they were colonists on some giant starship, a low-tech, multigeneration ark.
They were low-tech muzzleloaders, since I wasn’t in any hurry about rate of fire and didn’t plan to ever need them again after this battle.
They are decidedly low-tech: brushes of various sizes and stiffness, hammers, chisels, awls, shovels, rope, picks (from as big as pickaxes to as small as dental picks), buckets, water jugs, burlap, and bags of plaster of paris.
In any case the Riders were soon out of it, and into a polyspecific concourse as crowded as any low-tech bazaar.
They had set out to create an idyllic, low-tech farmers' paradise, escaping the ravages of the late Nathi Wars.
It was a far cry from the low-tech setups he'd worked as a new jack cop in the mid-eighties.
The shrink-wrap was discarded in the low-tech rectangular plastic waste can next to his desk, and the technician inserted the cassette in an ordinary-looking but expensive player that was linked electronically to another teletype machine ten feet away.