Fromhigh +level.
high-level (comparativehigher-level,superlativehighest-level)
- Taking place or existing at a high level,altitude orelevation.
- Antonym:low-level
2021 September 22, “National Rail Awards 2021: Glasgow Central - Network Rail”, inRAIL, number940, page47:It remains a key part of the busy Strathclyde railway system, with itshigh-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 ahighsocial position or highrank within ahierarchy ororganization.
- Consisting of such people.
- high-level conference
1961 March, “Talking of trains”, inTrains Illustrated, page130:Within 22 minutes of thehigh-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 relativelynatural language-likecommands andmathematicalnotations which, aftercompilation orinterpretation, become a set ofmachine language instructions.
- (business) A summary that provides a general overview and omits nearly all details.
- "To begin, aneed orwant is simply a broad definition of the overall requirements: thehigh-level description, the 30,000-foot view, and so on, of the problem without identifying any specifics."[1]
- (roleplaying games, video games) At (or associated with) anadvanced level within thecontext of agame'sprogressionsystem.
- Coordinate terms:low-level,mid-level,max-level
taking place or existing at a high level, altitude or elevation
consisting of people with high rank
programming: based on commands resembling natural language
