variants or less commonly hi-def
: high-definition
high-def TV
high-def programming
hi-def video
high-def noun
or less commonly hi-def
watching the game in high-def

Examples of high-def in a Sentence

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The 2025 Lincoln Navigator flagship gets dramatic new looks and features, including dramatic exterior lights, a new body and a high-def 48-inch instrument display stretching nearly the width of the big SUV’s dashboard. Mark Phelan, USA Today, 8 May 2025 Imax with Laser is a laser projection and 12-channel sound system with high-def images and audio. Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2025 Before then, the high-def camera was primarily used for shooting fast-food commercials, but producer Eddie Delbridge wanted to see how it could be used to capture beauty and movement. Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025 With high-def entertainment, a 13-hour battery life, and 32 GB (that’s twice that of the Amazon Kindle paperwhite), there’s not a lot this little gadget can’t do. Will Porter, Architectural Digest, 13 Feb. 2025 With 135 high-def screens of various sizes, the bar shows sports ranging from horse racing, motorsports, fights and pretty much all things involving balls and pucks. Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Dec. 2024 Prime members also get a discount of $1 monthly on Amazon Music Unlimited – ad-free high-def music on demand and playable when offline – which costs $10.99 monthly for non-members. Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2024 But that’s often deemed worth it in a merciless age of high-def TVs and zoomable photos on social media. Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Aug. 2024 The changes start at the very front, the base of the windscreen, where revolutionary a 48-inch-wide, high-def panel stretches from door to door. Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1983, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of high-def was in 1983

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“High-def.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high-def. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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