high-level

high-level
adjective Date: 1811 1. occurring, done, or placed at a high level 2. being of high importance or rank <
high-level diplomats
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3. of, relating to, or being a computer programming language (as BASIC or Pascal) which is similar to a natural language (as English) and in which each statement is translated by a compiler usually into several machine language instructions 4. relating to or being nuclear waste that contains highly concentrated radioactive components which are environmentally hazardous

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