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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

... Britain's government, has taken on magnified dimensions during the last half century. So long as war-ships used sails as their principal motive power, so long were they forced to employ methods of construction and equipment that forbade the efficient employment of high-power guns, the attainment of great speed, and the use of instruments of precision; so long, in other words, was their military effectiveness prevented from increasing greatly. But when the British navy decided to abandon sail power altogether and propel ...

— The Navy as a Fighting Machine • Bradley A. Fiske

... he remarked presently. "And it's just as you said, Jimmie; George is in a peck of trouble again with that cranky high-power engine. They've tied up to the shore and have got the red flag flying that was to be our signal of distress. Poor Nick; I can just picture him right now, grunting over all the misfortunes that haunt them, while the rest of us have had so little trouble. I'm afraid he'll waste away to mere skin ...

— Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise - or, The Dash for Dixie • Louis Arundel

... Huxley in the new preface,] "that 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 that Professor Ray Lankester has always maintained ...

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

... Lagny, which is about twelve miles from the gates and well outside the circle of defense. I took one of the Embassy automobiles driven by a skillful American amateur, Melvin Hall. He drove his own six-cylinder high-power car, carrying ...

— The Note-Book of an Attache - Seven Months in the War Zone • Eric Fisher Wood