power-hungry
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- adjective
- /ˈpaʊər ˈhʌŋɡri/
- Specialized
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de alto consumo energético
- Now if we can only come up with the battery technology to feed those power-hungry beasts.
- less power-hungry
- power-hungry and expensive
- too power-hungry
And two, that RX Vega was going to be a power hungry dog at the rumoured pricing.
- And two, that RX Vega was going to be a power hungry dog at the rumoured pricing.
- And so it's a little bit more power hungry, a little bit shorter battery life than you would find on your Valve Index controllers or even your Oculus Rift controllers.
Examples
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The first digital computers ran on glorified light bulbs and that is why they were so big, power hungry, and unreliable.
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But what are some of the more power-hungry apps for which you haven't yet found a good replacement in a web-based app?
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Consumers want their cases to be smaller and more quiet, while GPU's keep getting larger and more power hungry, meaning they require more cooling.
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However, previous designs are often bulky, expensive, and power-hungry.
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It could enable Apple to change the rules of the game and make its devices more powerful without having to pack ever faster and more power-hungry processors into them.
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Naturally, NVIDIA aims to offer as fast a card as possible at this TDP, alongside the more powerful but more power-hungry K20X.
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And so it's a little bit more power hungry, a little bit shorter battery life than you would find on your Valve Index controllers or even your Oculus Rift controllers.
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Now basically every flagship phone has LTE (except Google’s Nexus 4), thanks to smaller, less power-hungry LTE chips.
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Likely due to a desire to differentiate themselves from the iPhone and the need to fit a much bigger battery into their phones to feed early, power-hungry LTE chips, Apple's competitors began growing their screens to 3.8, 4, 4.3, 4.5, 4.8, and even larger sizes.
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Today's power-hungry appliances consume much more electricity than older models.
Synonyms
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Very strong and effective for machines, people, or actions
Antonyms
How Power-Hungry
- Specialized
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Etymology
Power-hungry is also used for machines and apps: here power, meaning 'electricity', and hungry, meaning 'needing a lot', create the image of a device that 'eats' energy quickly. That's why it means a device or system that uses a large amount of electrical power.