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TECH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences
Synonyms:
tech; technical school
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("tech" is a kind of...):
school (an educational institution)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tech"):
engineering school; polytechnic; polytechnic institute (a technical school offering instruction in many industrial arts and applied sciences)
Context examples:
Researchers using a high-tech aerial mapping scanner have discovered the ruins of tens of thousands of ancient Mayan structures that have been hidden and preserved for centuries under northern Guatemala's thick jungle.
(Hidden Mayan Civilization Revealed in Guatemala Jungle, VOA)
Geoscientists at the University of South Florida have successfully developed and tested a new high-tech shallow water buoy that can detect the small movements and changes in the Earth's seafloor that may be precursors to deadly natural hazards, such as earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis.
(Geoscientists develop technology to improve forecasting of earthquakes, tsunamis, National Science Foundation)
The system could provide cheap and low-tech water filtration to rural, arid areas, such as the North African and Asian deserts, where water preservation is crucial for farmers and expensive, industrial water purification is not available.
(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)
Uranus rules computers, software, and all things high-tech, so this is a possible area of concern, and Murphy’s Law—“If anything can go wrong, it will”—will surely be at play.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The platform, combined with high-tech imaging, detects genes and characterizes different kinds of stem cells with greater reliability, selectivity and sensitivity than today's biosensors.
(Better biosensor technology created for stem cells, National Science Foundation)
Because Uranus rules high tech, make sure you are using the most up-to-date software, as well as current malware protection.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
As said, Uranus rules high tech and will be unruly, so I don’t expect you would find anyone through a dating app—Uranus rules apps and is too unpredictable this month.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Aries is an adventurous sign, so it seems you may be making your money from a new business venture, one related to high tech or that has you working on a new product or service never seen before.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
