high-level

English

Etymology

high +‎ level

Adjective

high-level (not comparable)

1. Taking place or existing at a high level, altitude or elevation.
2. Of or pertaining to a person of a high social position or high rank within a hierarchy or organization.
3. 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.

4. (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.

Antonyms

• low-level

Hyponyms

• higher-level
• highest-level

Derived terms

• high-level language

Translations

taking place or existing at a high level, altitude or elevation

• Finnish: korkea (fi); korkean paikan (genitive of a noun)
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• Russian: на вы́сшем у́ровне (ru) (na výsšem úrovne)

of or pertaining to a person of high rank — see high-ranking

consisting of people with high rank

• Finnish: korkea-arvoinen; korkean tason (genitive of a noun)
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programming: based on commands resembling natural language

• Czech: vysokoúrovňový m
• Finnish: korkean tason (genitive of a noun)
• Irish: ardleibhéil
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• Portuguese: de alto nível
• Russian: высокоу́ровневый (ru) (vysokoúrovnevyj)