higher-level
Meaning
A "higher-level" thing operates at a more abstract or advanced layer than the basic details. It focuses on big-picture structure, strategy, or concepts rather than low-level mechanics. The term appears in computing, education, and management.
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higher level
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A higher-level executor service working on this same thread pool can be used optionally.
"Airs" above the ground main The levade The capriole The "school jumps," or "airs above the ground," are a series of higher-level classical dressage movements where the horse leaves the ground.
Although a DNA molecule cannot exist without physical properties, these properties are constrained by higher-level ordering principles.
Because higher-level church authorities were unable to resolve the matter, Moldova now has two episcopates, one for each patriarchate.
A Presentation MathML expression is built up out of tokens that are combined using higher-level elements, which control their layout (there are also about 50 attributes, which mainly control fine details).
An organization using assembly language that has been heavily extended using such a macro suite can be considered to be working in a higher-level language, since such programmers are not working with a computer's lowest-level conceptual elements.