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Definition of High-level

1. Adjective. At an elevated level in rank or importance. "Upper-level management"

2. Adjective. Occurring at or from a relative high altitude. "High-level bombing"

Definition of High-level

1. Adjective. Taking place or existing at a high level, altitude or elevation. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a person of a high social position or high rank within a hierarchy or organization. ¹

3. Adjective. Consisting of such people. ¹

4. Adjective. (context: 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of High-level

high-handed high-handedly high-hanging fruit high-hat high-hat cymbal high-hats high-hearted high-heeled high-hoe high-holder

high-jump high-jumper high-jumpers high-kV technique high-keyed high-level (current term) high-level formatting high-level language high-level languages high-level radioactive waste

high-low high-low-jack high-lows high-maintenance high-marking high-minded high-mindedly high-mindedness high-mobility group protein high-muck-a-muck

Literary usage of High-level

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Who helpeth the fallen ones Ecclesiastical poetry, like ecclesiastico-historical literature, did not long remain on the high level to which Romanos had ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1894)
"The Character of the high-level Shell-bearing Deposits at Clava, Chapelhall, and other Localities.—Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. J. HORNE ..."

3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1905)
"Expedients to secure high-level and unstable attention were divided between ... This high-level but unstable attention cannot indeed exist except in ..."

4. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"The fundamental requisite in a democracy is a generally high level of character and intelligence. In what way corruption is connected with monopoly ..."

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