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High jump
High jump: Olympic track and field event; athletes take off from one foot over a 4.00m bar. Techniques evolved from scissors and straddle to the Fosbury flop, standard since Dick Fosbury's 2.24m 1968 gold.
High jump at the Olympics
Olympic high jump: men's event since 1896, women's since 1928. Fosbury Flop won 1968 gold at 2.24 m; world records 2.45 m (men) and 2.10 m (Mahuchikh); Tokyo 2021 shared gold Barshim–Tamberi; Paris 2024 champion Hamish Kerr.
High Kick: Revenge of the Short Legged (하이킥: 짧은 다리의 역습)
High Kick: Revenge of the Short Legged (하이킥: 짧은 다리의 역습), a 123-episode MBC daily sitcom aired 2011-09-19 to 2012-03-29 at 7:45 pm; third and final High Kick series, directed by Kim Byung-wook, about a bankrupt family living with in-laws, 12.7% average rating.
High King of Ireland
High King of Ireland (ardrí) was a medieval title for kings claiming island-wide authority, first meaningful from the 9th century, most famously Brian Boru (d. 1014), ending with Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair and the 1169 English invasion.
High Level Bridge, River Tyne
The High Level Bridge is a road and railway bridge over the River Tyne between Newcastle and Gateshead, opened in 1849 and designed by Robert Stephenson.
High Life (2018 film)
High Life (2018) is Claire Denis's first English-language feature, a science-fiction drama starring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, and André Benjamin about death row inmates on a black hole mission.
High Limit Racing
High Limit Racing, co-founded by Kyle Larson and Brad Sweet, is a national 410 winged sprint car series launched in 2023 that expanded in 2024 to rival the World of Outlaws with big purses and charters.
High Line
The High Line is a 2.3 km elevated public park in Manhattan, built on a 1934 freight railway abandoned in 1980, converted starting 2009 after a Friends of the High Line campaign.
High low jack
High low jack, another name for All Fours (also Seven Up, Old Sledge; descendant Pitch/Setback), a 17th-century English trick-taking card game scoring one point each for high, low, jack, and game.
High Maintenance
High Maintenance is an American anthology comedy-drama created by Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair, about a Brooklyn weed dealer called The Guy; a Vimeo web series (2012, 19 episodes) that ran four HBO seasons, 34 episodes, 2016-2020.
High Middle Ages
High Middle Ages, also called central Middle Ages, the European period c. 1050–1300 of population growth, agrarian expansion, towns, universities, Gothic building, and crusading expansion, ending in the 14th-century crisis.
High Military Command for the Restoration of National Security and Public Order
High Military Command (Alto Mando) of the Armed Forces of Honduras: the supreme command body, composed of the President as Comandante General, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chief of the Joint Staff, charged with setting general national defense policy and restoring security and public order.
High mobility group protein HMGN
HMGN (high mobility group N) proteins, formerly HMG-14/17, are a family of five vertebrate nucleosome-binding chromatin proteins (HMGN1-5) that modulate chromatin structure, epigenetics, development, and disease.
High mountain
High mountain: mountains whose upper zones rise above the regional treeline and Pleistocene snow line into ice- and snow-driven processes. Also called alpine-type mountains; limits vary from 700 m in subarctic regions to 4000 m in the Rockies and Alps, with rapid elevation-dependent climate change.
High NA EUV
High NA EUV is the second generation of EUV lithography, raising the numerical aperture from 0.33 to 0.55; ASML's TWINSCAN EXE scanners entered chip production at Intel in 2026.
High Noon
High Noon (1952) is Fred Zinnemann's Western starring Gary Cooper as Marshal Will Kane, Grace Kelly in her first starring role, written by blacklisted Carl Foreman, four Oscars, National Film Registry 1989.
High Noon (seltzer)
High Noon, also known as High Noon Spirits, is an American vodka- and tequila-based hard seltzer brand owned by Gallo, launched in 2019.
High on Fire
High on Fire is an American stoner/sludge/doom metal power trio formed in 1998 in Oakland, California by Sleep guitarist Matt Pike; nine studio albums from The Art of Self Defense (2000) to Cometh the Storm (2024), and a 2019 Grammy for Electric Messiah.
High on Life (video game)
High on Life is a 2022 comedic first-person shooter by Squanch Games and Justin Roiland, featuring talking alien guns fighting a cartel that uses humans as drugs; biggest 2022 Game Pass launch, 7.5 million players, Metacritic 67.
High on Life 2
High on Life 2 (2026) is Squanch Games' comedic first-person shooter sequel to High on Life, released February 13, 2026 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Game Pass, with skateboarding replacing sprinting and talking alien guns; ESRB M, Metacritic 75.
High Output Management
High Output Management is a 1983 book by Andrew S. Grove applying manufacturing logic to management, arguing a manager's output is their organization's output and turning on managerial leverage.
High Peak (city)
High Peak is a non-metropolitan district and borough in northwest Derbyshire, England, named after the historic High Peak Hundred and containing the county's highest point, on Kinder Scout.
High Peak (landform)
High Peak, better known as Mount Tapulao, is a 2,037-2,044 m peak in Palauig, Zambales, Luzon, Philippines; the highest point of the Zambales Mountain Range and an Ultra prominence peak.
High Plains (United States)
High Plains (United States): a nearly flat upland plateau forming the core of the Great Plains from Nebraska to the Texas Panhandle, underlain by the Ogallala (High Plains) aquifer, whose irrigation supports major wheat, corn, cotton, and cattle production while groundwater declines.
High Plains Drifter
High Plains Drifter is Clint Eastwood's 1973 Western, his second film as director and first Western, in which a nameless Stranger avenges a murdered marshal in the town of Lago, painting it red as "Hell".
High Point University
High Point University (HPU), private university in High Point, North Carolina; founded 1924 as High Point College, renamed 1991. Known for Nido Qubein's post-2005 expansion from 91 to 530 acres, SACSCOC doctoral accreditation, and #1 U.S. News Regional College South rankings.
High Point, North Carolina
High Point, North Carolina: Piedmont Triad city in Guilford County, founded 1859 on the North Carolina Railroad; the "Home Furnishings Capital of the World" and host of the semi-annual High Point Market furniture trade show.
High Potential
High Potential is an American crime drama on ABC starring Kaitlin Olson as a high-IQ single mother consulting for the Los Angeles police, adapted from the French series HPI.
High potential iron-sulphur protein
High potential iron-sulphur protein (HiPIP), small bacterial electron-carrier protein with a 4Fe-4S cluster using the 3+/2+ redox couple at +50 to +450 mV, distinct from ferredoxins.
High Power Exploration (HPX)
High Power Exploration Inc. is a private mining exploration company founded by Robert Friedland that is developing the high-grade Nimba iron ore deposit in southeastern Guinea.