High - Science, Technology and Economics

Science, Technology and Economics

  • Height
  • High (atmospheric), a high pressure area
  • High (computability), a quality of a Turing degree, in computability theory
  • High (technical analysis), or top, an event in market-price fluctuations of a security
  • High (tectonics), in geology an area where relative tectonic uplift took or takes place
  • Substance intoxication, also known by the slang description "being high"
  • Sugar high, the acute physical and psychological effects of the molecule sucrose

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