deep tech

English

Noun

deep tech (uncountable)

1. Technology based on recent scientific discovery or engineering innovation; startups that work in this field.

   Synonym: hard tech

   • 2022 June 4, Phillip Inman, “From deep tech to high finance, why Leeds is luring companies north”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Move to Leeds and benefit from the jobs boom, says Melissa Berthelot, boss of medical appliance maker WarnerPatch, who relocated her business from London two years ago to benefit from a burgeoning deep tech industry in the West Yorkshire city. […] Deep tech refers to sectors including artificial intelligence, robotics and bio-technologies.

2. (music) A UK subgenre of house music.
   • 2014 December 30, Dominic Morris, “Deep tech: clubbing's biggest success story”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     As deep tech evolved, it began to incorporate sonic bells and whistles from UK rave; chopped-up ragga, hip-hop and diva vocals, shuffling syncopations winding around the 4x4 beat, build-drop song structures, and most importantly, floor-rumbling, chest-rattling sub-bass.

Further reading

• deep tech on Wikipedia.Wikipedia