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Definition of Top-down
1. Adjective. Of an approach to a problem that begins at the highest conceptual level and works down to the details. "Top-down programming"
Definition of Top-down
1. Adjective. of, or relating to a hierarchical system that progresses from a single, large basic unit to multiple, smaller subunits ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Top-down
Literary usage of Top-down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Energy Efficiency: Challenges and Trends for Electric Utilities (1993)
"To address issues involved in its creation, this chapter points out some difficulties
of top-down integration: a process that encompasses a requirements ..."
2. Teaching Children to Be Literate: A Reflective Approach by Anthony V. Manzo, Ula Casale Manzo (1995)
"top-down MODELS top-down models of the reading process tend to be ... top-down
models tend to de-emphasize subskills and literal understanding and to focus ..."
3. Paying for Highways, Airways, and Waterways: How Can Users Be Charged (1993)
"... Top-Down" Cost Allocation Studies of Pavement Costs The Final Report on the
Federal Highway Cost Allocation Study (HCAS), published in 1982, ..."
4. The Genesee Farmer. (1859)
"This summer I had occasion to re-set those that were set top down. I found them
all sound enough to re-set. My ei- periments have convinced me that the best ..."
5. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1890)
"They seemed to die from the top down. I wanted to find out what was the matter,
and dug up a quantity of dead vines, and took one, commenced at the top and ..."
6. We Discover New England by Louise Closser Hale (1915)
"CHAPTER VII Scenery Everywhere, Especially " With the Top Down" WE left Rutland
late the next morning, for the reason that the chauffeur was not to be found ..."
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