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hard tech

hard tech noun: technology that requires big breakthroughs and has a high barrier of entry.

Noun

hard tech (uncountable)

  1. Technology that requires big breakthroughs and has a high barrier of entry.
    • Emerging tech (which relates to other concepts such as frontier tech, deep tech, hard tech, sci-fi tech, exponential tech, or tough tech) is technology that still has an adoption curve into the future.2021, Trond Arne Undheim, Future Tech: How to Capture Value from Disruptive Industry Trends, Kogan Page Publishers, →ISBN, page 48
    • The nation’s tech capital has shifted into its artificial intelligence age — some call it the “hard tech” era — and the signs are everywhere.2025 August 4, Mike Isaac, “A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley’s ‘Hard Tech’ Era”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2025
    Synonyms:
    deep tech

Synonyms of hard tech

Questions about hard tech

What does hard tech mean?
Hard tech means technology that requires big breakthroughs and has a high barrier of entry.
What part of speech is hard tech?
Hard tech is a noun.

Words near hard tech in the dictionary

  1. hard swap
  2. hard swearing
  3. HARD syndrome
  4. hard tack
  5. hard tacks
  6. hard tech
  7. hard telling, not knowing
  8. hard tick
  9. hard ticks
  10. hard time
  11. hard times

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