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/haɪ-pˈaʊər/ Listen

adjective

high-powered, high-power adj.

Vigorously energetic or forceful. "High-powered executives"

Synonyms: high-octane, high-voltage.

Capable of a high degree of magnification; used of optical instruments such as microscopes or telescopes. "A high-powered microscope"

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Etymology of 'High-power'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"High-power" Quotes from Famous Books

... prepared, and would be supported, with every possible help that organization could provide. That belief was founded not upon fine words spoken on parade, but by strenuous work, a driving zeal, and the fine intelligence of a chief of staff whose brain was like a high-power engine. ...

— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs

... usin' a lot o' high-power words 'at ain't needful in repetin', "take your blame junk an' get out o' here." I nodded to the bar mop. "Shall I get ...

— Happy Hawkins • Robert Alexander Wason

... "The suspiciousness lays up here somewheres on this butte. If yuh want to know what brung me up here, Casey Ryan's the man that can tell yuh to your faces. I come up here to find out who's been gittin' busy with a high-power on my camp down below. Ain't it natural a man'd want to know who'd shot his two burros—an' 'is pardner?" Casey had impulsively decided to throw in Barney for good measure. "Casey Ryan ain't the man to set under a bush an' be shot at like a rabbit. You can ask anybody if Casey ever ...

— The Trail of the White Mule • B. M. Bower

... philosophical as it might be in theory, it had defects in practice." [The process might be regarded as not following the scientific rule of proceeding from the known to the unknown; while the small and simple organisms required a skill in handling high-power microscopes which was difficult for beginners to acquire. Hence the course was reversed, and began with the more familiar type of the rabbit or frog. This was Rolleston's practice; but it may be noted ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley

... be the case. The high-power rifles, fired at close range, with hands excited yet none the less fairly accurate, had done their work in such fashion as might have finished three or four bears instead of one even as large as ...

— The Young Alaskans on the Trail • Emerson Hough

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