high-lev·el (hīlĕvəl)
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Tweet adj. 1. Made up of or carried out by persons having high rank or status: a high-level corporate briefing. 2. Being at an elevated level in rank or importance: a high-level official. 3. Computers Of, relating to, or being a language, such as BASIC or Pascal, in which each instruction or statement corresponds to several instructions in machine language. A high-level language is translated into machine language by a compiler. |
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