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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

... be the case. The high-power rifles, fired at close range, with hands excited yet none the less fairly accurate, had done their work in such fashion as might have finished three or four bears instead of one even as large as ...

— The Young Alaskans on the Trail • Emerson Hough

... "The suspiciousness lays up here somewheres on this butte. If yuh want to know what brung me up here, Casey Ryan's the man that can tell yuh to your faces. I come up here to find out who's been gittin' busy with a high-power on my camp down below. Ain't it natural a man'd want to know who'd shot his two burros—an' 'is pardner?" Casey had impulsively decided to throw in Barney for good measure. "Casey Ryan ain't the man to set under a bush an' be shot at like a rabbit. You can ask anybody if Casey ever ...

— The Trail of the White Mule • B. M. Bower

... armies marched over the road to Peking in 1900," Frank explained, "and I rather think the inhabitants of strip of country have a wholesome respect for foreigners. With our high-power motorcycles, ought to make Peking before daylight, if we start right ...

— Boy Scouts on Motorcycles - With the Flying Squadron • G. Harvey Ralphson

... 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

... optical method of examining threads, but the writer has invariably found a high-power microscope more convenient and capable of giving more exact information as to ...

— On Laboratory Arts • Richard Threlfall