high-speed

[ hahy-speed ]

/ ˈhaɪˈspid /

designed to operate or operating at a high speed: a high-speed drill.

Photography. suitable for minimum light exposure: high-speed film; a high-speed lens.

Origin of high-speed

First recorded in 1870–75

The cops suspended the high-speed pursuit lest some innocent be killed.

Did the Amber Lynn Coplin Murder Photos Sicken the Creeps of 4Chan? |Michael Daly |November 6, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
This was before France had its network of high-speed trains.

Is This Hemingway’s Pamplona or a Lot of Bull? |Clive Irving |July 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Thankfully, I have a high-speed Internet connection, so my doom window was but fleeting.

Online Dating for Geniuses Only |Charlotte Lytton |June 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
An expansion of high-speed Internet access, to improve social-media infrastructure and provide thousands of new (celebrity) jobs.

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Last year, I also pledged to connect 99 percent of our students to high-speed broadband over the next four years.

Full Text of President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union Address | |January 29, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Survival chances were dim anytime something went wrong on the high-speed thruways.

Code Three |Rick Raphael
If a high-speed buffered data channel is used, block transfer may occur at memory cycle speeds.

On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969 |H. W. Fulbright et al.
The new workman placed at a high-speed machine is ready to fall from weariness at the end of his first day.

The Mind and Its Education |George Herbert Betts
"She would that," answered Jane laughingly, starting the car and a moment later throwing in the high-speed clutch.

The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea |Janet Aldridge
Well, I'd never thought of myself as a high-speed job, winning all the races—I wouldn't feel comfortable that way.

The Big Time |Fritz Reuter Leiber

high-speed

employing or requiring a very short exposure time high-speed film

recording or making exposures at a rate usually exceeding 50 and up to several million frames per second

working, moving, or operating at a high speed