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high-speed

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high-speed (hspd)
adj.
1. Operated or designed for operation at high speed: a high-speed food processor.
2. Taking place at high speed: a high-speed chase.
3. Having a speed of 50-500 frames per second, as movie film, to record events that occur too rapidly for usual photography.

high-speed
adj Photog
1. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) employing or requiring a very short exposure time high-speed film
2. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) recording or making exposures at a rate usually exceeding 50 and up to several million frames per second
3. working, moving, or operating at a high speed
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.high-speed - operating at high speed; "a high-speed food processor"; "a high-velocity shell"
fast - acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly; "fast film"; "on the fast track in school"; "set a fast pace"; "a fast car"

high-speed
adjective fast, express, quick, rapid, swift, brisk It takes a mile and a half to stop a high-speed train.
Translations
high-speed [ˌhaɪˈspiːd] ADJ [vehicle] → de alta velocidad; [test] → rĂ¡pido
high-speed traintren m de alta velocidad
high-speed [ˈhaɪˌspiːd] adj (film) → ultrarapido/a
high-speed train → treno rapido
high-speed [ˈhaɪˌspiːd] adj (film) → ultrarapido/a
high-speed train → treno rapido


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It is nothing less than the high-speed tool of civilization, gearing up the whole mechanism to more effective social service.
He was quite willing to satisfy our curiosity, and in a few minutes we learned that the Streak had come in after dark from San Francisco; that this was what might be called the trial trip; and that she was the property of Silas Tate, a young mining millionaire of California, whose fad was high-speed yachts.
 
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