any technology requiring the most sophisticated scientific equipment and advanced engineering techniques, as microelectronics, data processing, genetic engineering, or telecommunications (opposed to low technology).
Origin
1965-70
Related forms
high-technology, adjective
Examples from the web for high technology
Teaching is pretty much orthogonal to using technology, even if you teach high technology.
The human touch is much more vital to higher education than is high technology.
GE is a high end high technology manufacturer of large sized industrial machinery.
They have proved expert at applying and improving existing technology, even the high technology of touch-screen smartphones.
We can still offer them sophisticated services, our education system, and some high technology products.
And it hadn't taken him long to prove that high technology sounded far less impressive when discussed by a fat hick.
British Dictionary definitions for high technology
high technology
noun
1.
highly sophisticated, often electronic, techniques used in manufacturing and other processes