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High-throughput screening
High-throughput screening (HTS), also known as high-throughput experimentation, is a drug discovery method that uses automated, miniaturized assays to test hundreds of thousands to millions of compounds against disease targets.
High-throughput sequencing
High-throughput sequencing, also called next-generation sequencing (NGS), is a family of laboratory methods that sequences millions to billions of DNA or RNA fragments in parallel, first commercialized in 2005.
High-velocity oxy-fuel spraying
High-velocity oxy-fuel (HVOF) spraying is a thermal spray process burning fuel and oxygen to form a supersonic jet that produces dense, hard coatings, developed in the early 1980s.
High-visibility clothing
High-visibility clothing (hi-vis) is personal protective equipment combining fluorescent background material and retroreflective striping, worn by road, rail, and construction workers, emergency responders, cyclists, and pedestrians.
High-voltage direct current
High-voltage direct current (HVDC), also called high-voltage DC, transmits electrical power as direct current at high voltage, used for long-distance bulk transmission, submarine cables, and connecting unsynchronized AC grids.
High-voltage direct current cable
A high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cable is a power cable that carries electricity at direct current over long submarine and underground distances where AC cables become inefficient.
High-voltage pulse fragmentation
High-voltage pulse fragmentation is a comminution method in which short, high-voltage discharges in liquid break composites selectively along material interfaces, used mainly for recycling photovoltaic modules, concrete, and batteries.
High-Z Supernova Search Team
The High-Z Supernova Search Team, led by Brian Schmidt, is an international collaboration whose 1998 observations of Type Ia supernovae revealed that the universe's expansion is accelerating.
High–low method
The high–low method is a cost-estimation technique in management accounting that splits a mixed cost into fixed and variable components using only the highest and lowest activity observations.
High&Low
High&Low names two unrelated Japanese screen works: High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku, Kurosawa's 1963 kidnapping thriller based on Ed McBain's King's Ransom) and HiGH&LOW, the Nippon TV and LDH Japan action franchise begun in 2015.
High1 Choochoopark
High1 Choochoopark (하이원추추파크) is South Korea's first railway theme park, opened October 24, 2014 in Dogye-eup, Samcheok on the disused Yeongdong Line switchback section, with a switchback train, rail bike, and villa lodging.
Highbar Partners
Highbar Partners is a Menlo Park, California private investment firm founded by John H. Kim and Roy Thiele-Sardiña that provides growth capital to software companies.
Highclere Castle
Highclere Castle is a Grade I listed country house in Hampshire, England, seat of the Earl of Carnarvon, remodeled by Sir Charles Barry from 1839 to 1842.
Highdee Kuan
Highdee Kuan (海蒂·關), born 1998 in San Francisco, is an American-Dutch actress known for Alexis in Netflix's The Brothers Sun (2024) and Olive in Apple TV+'s Brothers (2026), with guest roles in You, This Is Us, and Quantum Leap.
Higher Brothers
Higher Brothers (更高兄弟) are a Chengdu, China trap rap quartet, MaSiWei, KnowKnow, Psy.P, and Melo, who rap in Sichuanese, Mandarin, and English; the first China-born hip hop group with global fame, via 88rising and "Made in China."
Higher consciousness
Higher consciousness: a term for states above ordinary waking awareness, used in a Hegelian sense of historical mental progress and a New Age sense of mystical transcendence, documented from ca. 1970 and central to Maharishi Vedic psychology's higher states scheme.
Higher education accreditation
Higher education accreditation: external quality review of colleges and programs. In the U.S. run by private accreditors (19 institutional, ~63 programmatic) recognized by ED/CHEA, gating federal aid; reformed by Executive Order 14279 (2025).
Higher education in India
Higher education in India: university-level system rooted in ancient Nalanda-era learning, reshaped by 1857 colonial universities, expanded after 1947 under the UGC, now among the world's largest by institution count.
Higher education in Japan
Higher education in Japan, or tertiary education in Japan, is the post-secondary system of universities, junior colleges, and colleges of technology overseen by the education ministry, MEXT.
Higher education in the United States
Higher education in the United States: a decentralized system of public and private postsecondary institutions enrolling 18.6 million students in 2026, built on colonial colleges, the 1862 Morrill land-grant Act, HBCUs, and community colleges, with high tuition, strong earnings returns, and peer-based accreditation.
Higher Goals
Higher Goals is a 1986 outdoor sculpture by American artist David Hammons, five telephone poles topped with basketball backboards and hoops, installed in Cadman Plaza Park, Brooklyn.
Higher Ground (record label)
Higher Ground is an American house-music record label and Mad Decent imprint founded in 2019 by Diplo, named after his house EP, with releases by Walker & Royce and Diplo.
Higher Ground Productions
Higher Ground Productions, the Obamas' 2018 media company (Higher Ground Media), began as an exclusive Netflix deal; American Factory won the 2019 documentary Oscar, and the company moved toward independence in 2026.
Higher Learning
Higher Learning (1995) is John Singleton's campus drama, starring Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson, Michael Rapaport, Ice Cube, and Laurence Fishburne at fictional Columbus University, released January 11, 1995 by Columbia Pictures.
Higher Love
Higher Love: 1986 pop song by Steve Winwood and Will Jennings, US number one single from Back in the High Life; Whitney Houston's 1990 cover, remixed by Kygo in 2019, reached UK number two; not the Depeche Mode track of the same name.
Higher National Diploma
Higher National Diploma (HND): UK vocational higher education award at RQF Level 5 (SCQF 8), equivalent to the first two years of a bachelor's degree, top-up route to honours, and an approved higher technical qualification (HTQ).
Higher Nervous Activity
Higher nervous activity (vysshaia nervnaia deiatel'nost) is Ivan Pavlov's term for the conditioned, learned activity of the cerebral cortex, the basis of classical conditioning, later a MeSH descriptor and mandatory Soviet physiological framework.
Higher Police
Higher Police (고등경찰, 高等警察) was the political-police branch of Japan's colonial police system in Korea, suppressing political activity, religion, and socialist thought from 1910 to 1945.
Higher School of Economics
HSE University (Высшая школа экономики), founded in Moscow on November 27, 1992, is a Russian national research university with campuses in four cities, 60,000+ students, and leading Russian rankings in economics and social sciences.
Higher University of San Andrés
The Higher University of San Andrés (Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, UMSA), founded in La Paz in 1830, is Bolivia's principal public university and its second oldest, with more than 80,000 students.