Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
low-level \low-level\ adj.
weak; not intense; as, low-level radiation.
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lower in rank or importance. [Narrower terms: adjunct, assistant; associate(prenominal) ; {buck ; {deputy(prenominal), proxy(prenominal) ; {subject, dependent ; {subservient ] [Narrower terms: {under(prenominal) ; {ruled ; {secondary ] Also See {inferior, s ubordinate. Antonym: dominant.
Syn: subordinate.
at a low level in rank or importance; as, a low-level job; low-level discussions.
occurring at a relatively low altitude; as, a low-level strafing run; low-level bombing.
Wiktionary
a. 1 relatively unimportant 2 not intense 3 (context computing English) of, or relating to a program, or to code in which each statement corresponds to a single machine instruction 4 details
WordNet
adj. not intense; "low-level radiation"
lower in rank or importance [syn: subordinate] [ant: dominant]
at a low level in rank or importance; "a low-level job"; "low-level discussions"
occurring at a relatively low altitude; "a low-level strafing run"
Usage examples of "low-level".
Ahead of us now was the target, a row of six or seven low-level, brick faced light industrial units with flat aluminium roofs and windows.
Thus, the real dissimilarity between the emergent status of fluidity in water and the emergent status of consciousness from the brain is that the former is a low-level, or primitive, emergence, while the latter is a high-level, or complex, emergence.
The homesteaders were FBI employees who had been in the Roanoke office for a long time, people who either had low-level technical jobs or were non-career-path special agents.
Some of their low-level conversation was difficult even for a Wais to understand, and they preferred to associate almost exclusively with the larger, more sophisticated Hivistahm, whom they closely resembled.
The high-energy proton spectrpmetry clusters flunked out, too, as did the gravimetric distortion mapping scanner, the fixed angle gamma frequency counter, the wide-angle EM radiation imaging scanner, the quark population analysis counter, the Z-range particulate spectrometry sensor, the low-frequency EM flux sensor, the localized subspace field stress sensor, the parametric subspace field stress sensor, the hydrogen-filter subspace flux scanner, the linear calibration subspace flux sensor, the variable band optical imagining cluster, the virtual aperture graviton flux spectrometer, the high-resolution graviton flux spectrometer, the very low energy graviton spin pola-rimeter, the passive imaging gamma interferometry sensor, the low-level imagining sensor, the virtual particle mapping camera, and even the life-form analysis instrument counter.
A couple low-level informants told us that an Iranian by that name had recruited the suicide bomber who drove an explosive-packed GMC pickup truck into the lobby of our embassy in Beirut.
With this historic defensive success, after slaughtering two low-level bomber waves, Nagumo was riding high.
She felt a constant low-level unease at spending her days in the presence of the Garwater authorities: the Lovers, Tintinnabulum and his crew, Uther Doul.
He looked like some kind of low-level clerk, with his short, sandy blond hair, his unathletic body, his pale, long fingers unmarked by any evidence of hard physical labor.
The damned thing refused to die gracefully, acting instead as if it were putting on a low-level aerobatic performance for the enjoyment of the spectators in this case, Bob and members of the 307th NVA Regiment.
She did reveal the whereabouts of a low-level Middle Eastern black marketer named Al Basrah, after the Iranian city of the same name.
Cheaper, botched fakes were sold or sharewared to low-level gangs of boodler wannabes.
He was moving his forces openly, making low-level attacks and high-level threats against the kingdoms in the most brazen manner, and because they liked Klittichom and considered him a good-fellow-well-met who said all the right things, and they had a personality problem with Boolean, who always spoke his mind, it was the latter who was getting the blame and taking the heat!
In her valise she carried data on the recent increase in local, low-level Earth tremors, gathered with the finest instruments.
The high-energy proton spectrpmetry clusters flunked out, too, as did the gravimetric distortion mapping scanner, the fixed angle gamma frequency counter, the wide-angle EM radiation imaging scanner, the quark population analysis counter, the Z-range particulate spectrometry sensor, the low-frequency EM flux sensor, the localized subspace field stress sensor, the parametric subspace field stress sensor, the hydrogen-filter subspace flux scanner, the linear calibration subspace flux sensor, the variable band optical imagining cluster, the virtual aperture graviton flux spectrometer, the high-resolution graviton flux spectrometer, the very low energy graviton spin pola-rimeter, the passive imaging gamma interferometry sensor, the low-level imagining sensor, the virtual particle mapping camera, and even the life-form analysis instrument counter.