HIGH-SPEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high-speed mean? 

• HIGH-SPEED (adjective)
  The adjective HIGH-SPEED has 1 sense:

1. operating at high speed

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH-SPEED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Operating at high speed

Synonyms:

high-speed; high-velocity

Context example:

a high-velocity shell

Similar:

fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)

 Context examples 

They observed two high-speed waves: the first traveled at 1,860 miles per second and the second, less than a fourth that speed.

(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)

Currently, high-speed cameras capture images one by one in a sequence.

(World's Fastest Film Camera, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Under the watchful eyes of five high-speed cameras, a small bird named Gary waits for the signal to fly.

(Researchers study birds to improve how robots land, National Science Foundation)

The black hole’s spin, coupled with gas spiraling toward the black hole, can produce a rotating, tightly wound vertical tower of magnetic field that flings a large fraction of the inflowing gas away from the vicinity of the black hole in an energetic, high-speed jet.

(Chandra Finds Evidence for Serial Black Hole Eruptions, NASA)

Researchers used high-speed DNA sequencing and advanced computational analysis to study stool samples from 32 infants born very preterm who received antibiotic treatment for 21 months (in the neonatal intensive care unit and after discharge), nine infants born very preterm who received antibiotics for less than a week, and 17 healthy term and late preterm infants who hadn’t received antibiotics.

(Prolonged antibiotic treatment may alter preterm infants’ microbiome, National Institutes of Health)

Instead, the Cambridge researchers have built a circular flume so that the dunes can be observed for hours as the flume rotates, while high-speed cameras allow them to track the flow of individual particles in the dunes.

(Sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other, University of Cambridge)

Using ultra-high-speed cameras and modern audio capture techniques, the researchers, from the University of Cambridge, found that the ‘plink, plink’ sound produced by a water droplet hitting a liquid surface is caused not by the droplet itself, but by the oscillation of a small bubble of air trapped beneath the water’s surface.

(What causes the sound of a dripping tap – and how do you stop it?, University of Cambridge)