high-level

From high +‎ level.

high-level (comparative higher-level, superlative highest-level)

1. 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.

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.
5. (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."

• low-level

• higher-level
• highest-level

• midlevel
• mid-range
• midtier

• high-level language
• high-level synthesis