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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-powered'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"High-powered" Quotes from Famous Books

... occasional cars went coasting past on the down grade, coming in off the desert, or climbed more slowly with motors working, on their way up from the valley below. The shifting brilliance from their headlights flicked the grove capriciously as they went by. Now and then a car stopped. One, a big, high-powered car with one dazzling spotlight swung into the narrow ...

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

... fired again. Since the light did not serve to show the dust puffs of the bullets, he could not tell whether he was shooting high or low. The main thing was that he did not hit. Casey chimed in. The bluffs and banks echoed to the reports of the high-powered rifles; but the figures gained the rim and vanished. Immediately afterward a tongue of flame leaped from the spot where they were last seen, and a bullet sang in close proximity to Casey's head. They wheeled into the shelter of the trees, where the shadows effectually ...

— Desert Conquest - or, Precious Waters • A. M. Chisholm

... between P and F the "internal resistance" of the plate circuit of the tube. How large it is depends upon the design of tube. In some tubes it may be five or six thousand ohms, and in others several times as high. In the large tubes used in high-powered transmitting sets it is much less. Since it will be different in different cases we shall use a symbol for it and say that ...

— Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son • John Mills

... greater skill to approach, unarmed, so close to game that one may touch it with a fish pole, and the reward is a much greater and a more satisfactory thrill than the head hunter ever gets from lying off at long range with a high-powered rifle and utterly destroying life. Furthermore, think of how much better one can study natural history by observing live animals in action, rather than motionless ones in death! An artist, in his effort to render a perfect portrait of a human being, never murders his sitter, as the so-called ...

— The Drama of the Forests - Romance and Adventure • Arthur Heming

... elephants of Kenia have been practically secure from the white hunter with his high-powered rifles. Warfare between the native tribes on the slopes has been so constant that it was not until three or four years ago that it was considered reasonably safe for the government to allow hunting parties to invade the south side of the mountain. Prior to that time the elephant's most ...

— In Africa - Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country • John T. McCutcheon

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