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High and Dry / Planet Telex
High and Dry / Planet Telex is Radiohead's 27 February 1995 Parlophone double A-side, the first single from The Bends, peaking at number 17 in the UK; High and Dry was an older On A Friday-era song Yorke disliked, while Planet Telex was written late in the 1994 sessions.
High and Low (天国と地獄) (1963 film)
High and Low (天国と地獄, Tengoku to jigoku) is Akira Kurosawa's 1963 Toho crime thriller starring Toshiro Mifune, adapted from Ed McBain's King's Ransom: a Yokohama executive pays a 30-million-yen ransom for his chauffeur's mistakenly kidnapped son.
High and tight
The high and tight is a military hairstyle with shaved sides and a very short strip of hair on top, associated especially with the Marines.
High angular resolution diffusion imaging
High angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) is a diffusion MRI strategy sampling over 50 gradient directions at high b-values to resolve crossing fibers that diffusion tensor imaging cannot.
High anion gap metabolic acidosis
Anion gap metabolic acidosis: metabolic acidosis with elevated serum anion gap (AG = Na − (Cl + HCO3), normally 8–16 mmol/L) from unmeasured organic anions such as lactate, ketoacids, and toxic alcohols.
High Anxiety
High Anxiety is Mel Brooks's 1977 Twentieth Century-Fox comedy spoofing Alfred Hitchcock films such as Spellbound, Psycho, and Vertigo, starring Brooks as an acrophobic psychiatrist, with Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, and Harvey Korman.
High Art
High Art (1998) is Lisa Cholodenko's debut feature, an independent queer drama starring Ally Sheedy, Radha Mitchell, and Patricia Clarkson; it won Sundance's Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and was restored in 4K by Criterion.
High Atlas
High Atlas (الأطلس الكبير, Haut Atlas): Morocco's highest mountain range, running from the Atlantic to the Algerian border; Jebel Toubkal 4,167 m; Cenozoic inversion of a Triassic–Jurassic rift; Mw 6.8 El-Haouz earthquake 2023.
High availability
High availability (HA) is a property of a computer system that keeps a service usable through component interruptions, using redundancy, replication, and automatic failover to keep downtime small.
High Average Power Laser program
The High Average Power Laser program (HAPL) was a United States multi-institution research program, managed at the Naval Research Laboratory, that developed laser-driven inertial fusion energy from 1999 to 2008.
High Band Holdings, LLC
High Band Holdings, LLC is a Delaware telecommunications holding company formed in 2018, affiliated with the venture firm Columbia Capital, and headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.
High Bandwidth Memory
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is a type of computer memory in which stacked DRAM dies deliver very high bandwidth, the dominant memory in AI accelerators and HPC systems.
High Banks
High Banks names several places: a scheduled monument, possibly an Iron Age or Roman fort, at Ovington, Norfolk (NHLE 1004038); High Banks Farm's early Bronze Age cup-and-ring marked rocks in Kirkcudbright, Scotland (SM1028); and minor namesakes in Cumbria, Suffolk, and New York.
High bone mass osteogenesis imperfecta
High bone mass osteogenesis imperfecta (ORPHA:314029), a rare autosomal dominant OI subtype from BMP1 or procollagen C-propeptide cleavage-site variants, causes childhood fractures despite increased bone mineral density.
High card by suit
High card by suit: poker procedure where players draw cards and the highest card, ties broken by suit order spades-hearts-diamonds-clubs, decides the button, seats, first bettor in stud, or an odd chip; never used at showdown.
High church
High church, part of the High Church Movement, is an Anglican tendency holding a high view of the Church, ministry, and sacraments, with formal ceremonial worship.
High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago (Höga kusten, Merenkurkun saaristo): transboundary UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Gulf of Bothnia, Sweden and Finland, inscribed 2000 and 2006 for the world's highest post-glacial land uplift and De Geer moraines.
High Cookie
High Cookie (하이쿠키, Hi Cookie) is a 2023 South Korean U+ Mobile TV fantasy thriller, 20 episodes, directed by Song Min-yeop, written by Kang Han, starring Nam Ji-hyun, Choi Hyun-wook, Kim Mu-yeol, and Jung Da-bin; a wish-granting cookie spreads through an elite high school.
High Council for the Unity of Azawad
The High Council for the Unity of Azawad (HCUA) is a Tuareg armed and political movement in northern Mali, founded in 2013 as an offshoot of Ansar Dine.
High Country (TV series)
High Country is an Australian mystery drama series created by Marcia Gardner and John Ridley for Foxtel/Binge, starring Leah Purcell as Detective Andie Whitford investigating five missing persons in the Victorian High Country; season 1 aired 2024, season 2 (What Lies Beneath) premiered 14 September 2026.
High Court of Australia
The High Court of Australia, also called the Australian High Court, is Australia's highest court, created by the Constitution in 1901 to decide constitutional questions and hear final appeals.
High Court of Justice
The High Court of Justice is a senior court of England and Wales, created by the Judicature Acts 1873-1875 within the Supreme Court of Judicature. Originally five divisions, now King's Bench, Family, and from 2026 the Business and Property Division; it handles major civil cases and judicial review.
High courts of India
The High Courts of India are the 25 highest State-level courts below the Supreme Court, headed by a Chief Justice each, exercising writ and superintendence powers, established from 1862 (Calcutta, Bombay, Madras) onward.
High Crimes
High Crimes is a 2002 American legal thriller directed by Carl Franklin, based on Joseph Finder's novel, in which attorney Ashley Judd defends her husband in a military court.
High crimes and misdemeanors
High crimes and misdemeanors: the Article II, section 4 U.S. constitutional standard for impeachment and removal of the President, Vice President, and civil officers, borrowed from English parliamentary practice and covering political abuses of office beyond indictable crime.
High culture
High culture: art forms traditionally tied to upper social classes, such as opera, ballet, classical music, and fine arts, contrasted with mass and folk culture; its categories are historically constructed and class-linked.
High Definition Compatible Digital
High Definition Compatible Digital (HDCD) is a proprietary process that improves 16-bit CD sound while remaining playable on any standard CD player, developed by Keith Johnson and Michael Pflaumer.
High Desert
High Desert: Apple TV+ dark comedy (2023) created by Nancy Fichman, Katie Ford, and Jennifer Hoppe, starring Patricia Arquette as Yucca Valley addict-turned-private-investigator Peggy Newman; directed by Jay Roach, executive produced by Ben Stiller, canceled after one season.
High diving
High diving: acrobatic dives from 20 m (women) or 27 m (men) platforms or cliffs, feet-first entry, governed by World Aquatics; a World Championships discipline since 2013, not yet Olympic.
High dynamic range
High dynamic range (HDR): imaging techniques capturing and displaying a wider brightness range than standard digital imaging, via exposure bracketing, 32-bit merging, tone mapping, and BT.2100/ISO 22028-5 standards.