high-level
English
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[edit]high-level (comparative higher-level, superlative highest-level)
- Taking place or existing at a high level, altitude or elevation.
- 2021 September 22, “National Rail Awards 2021: Glasgow Central - Network Rail”, in RAIL, number 940, page 47:
- It remains a key part of the busy Strathclyde railway system, with its high-level platforms served by trains to Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and England, and its low-level platforms a key artery at the heart of the busiest commuter network outside London.
- Of or pertaining to a person of a high social position or high rank within a hierarchy or organization.
- Consisting of such people.
- high-level conference
- 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 130:
- Within 22 minutes of the high-level decision at 1.38 a.m. on the Sunday morning to withdraw the electric trains, a special control had been established at Glasgow North headquarters to organise the return to steam working.
- (computing, of a programming language) Consisting of relatively natural language-like commands and mathematical notations which, after compilation or interpretation, become a set of machine language instructions.
- (business) A summary that provides a general overview and omits nearly all details.
- "To begin, a need or want is simply a broad definition of the overall requirements: the high-level description, the 30,000-foot view, and so on, of the problem without identifying any specifics." [1]
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[edit]taking place or existing at a high level, altitude or elevation
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of or pertaining to a person of high rank — see high-ranking
consisting of people with high rank
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programming: based on commands resembling natural language
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