🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

alta tecnologia

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ˈalta teknoˈlɔdʒa

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
High-tech/ˈhaɪ.tɛk/
adjectivenounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Il nuovo laboratorio è dotato di strumenti di alta tecnologia."

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2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Using or involving advanced technology and complex electronic devices.

    "The factory upgraded to a high-tech automated assembly line to increase production efficiency."
As noun
  1. 1

    Advanced technology or the industry and products associated with it.

    "Silicon Valley remains the global capital of high-tech and innovation."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term is a clipped compound of 'high' and 'technology', emerging in the late 1960s to describe advanced electronic and scientific equipment. Over the decades, it shifted from specialized industrial jargon to a ubiquitous descriptor for modern, cutting-edge innovations and automated production processes.

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