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What is "top-down"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
top-down
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
approach
▪ This alternative design may be based on management needs, a sort of top-down approach.
▪ In a less restrictive system such a top-down approach would not be feasible.
▪ There are two main ways of forecasting earnings: the bottom-up approach and the top-down approach.
▪ In the top-down approach, the effects of the wider macroeconomy on the firm's earnings are taken into account.
▪ Dictionary look-up techniques represent the top-down approach, and involve verifying the input word by matching it with a dictionary word.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Consider the extent to which the approach can be said to be atomistic or holistic, bottom-up or top-down.
▪ It is not only top-down planning that has gone; much of the faith in a strong central state has disappeared.
▪ So far this has been the approach we have made to our top-down dreaming.
▪ Such models receive information from both top-down and bottom-up sources, and feedback exists between all levels.
▪ This alternative design may be based on management needs, a sort of top-down approach.
Wiktionary
top-down

a. 1 of, or relating to a hierarchical system that progresses from a single, large basic unit to multiple, smaller subunits 2 (cx video games English) having an aerial view

WordNet
top-down

adj. of an approach to a problem that begins at the highest conceptual level and works down to the details; "a top-down analysis might begin by looking at macro-economic trends"; "top-down programming" [ant: bottom-up]

Wikipedia
Top-down (disambiguation)

Top-down is a design strategy of information processing and knowledge ordering.

Top-down may also refer to:

  • " Top Down", a 2007 song by Swizz Beatz

Usage examples of "top-down".

There are few institutions in human society that have such strict hierarchy and top-down control as a business organization.

This method symbolizes the old top-down, hierarchical structure of industry.

As far as he could make out there was no absolute, top-down hierarchical structure at all.

They released viruses into the unprotected infostructure, corrupting the carefully controlled top-down network topology, introducing parallel and multiplex paths that made emergent global intelligence unstoppable.

When the opsit finally came up it gave him a top-down graphic of the operations zone when he tried squinting down his nose.

As suspicion spreads that top-down controls are unworkable, plannees begin clamoring for the right to participate in the decision-making.

The top-down view, from a virtual height of five hundred meters, was more than graphic enough.