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HIGH-POWERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high-powered mean? 

HIGH-POWERED (adjective)
  The adjective HIGH-POWERED has 2 senses:

1. vigorously energetic or forcefulplay

2. (used of microscopes) capable of a high degree of magnificationplay

  Familiarity information: HIGH-POWERED used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HIGH-POWERED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Vigorously energetic or forceful

Synonyms:

high-energy; high-octane; high-power; high-powered; high-voltage

Context example:

a high-voltage theatrical entrepreneur

Similar:

dynamic; dynamical (characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality)


Sense 2

Meaning:

(used of microscopes) capable of a high degree of magnification

Context example:

a high-powered microscope

Similar:

powered ((often used in combination) having or using or propelled by means of power or power of a specified kind)


 Context examples 


Virtual reality in Medical Imaging is the technique of combining 3D DICOM image data sets produced by medical imaging equipment with extremely high-powered computer capabilities.

(Medical Imaging, Virtual Reality, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine used high-powered microscopy and rheometry — the measurement of how materials become deformed in response to applied force — to view that process in real time and at the cellular level.

(How And Why Blood Clots Shrink, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers have used high-powered microscopy and rheometry — the measurement of how materials become deformed in response to applied force — to view the blood clotting process in real time and at the cellular level.

(How And Why Blood Clots Shrink, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)



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