high-water mark

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high-water mark

a. the level reached by sea water at high tide or by other stretches of water in flood

b. the mark indicating this level

high-water mark [¦hī ′wȯd·ər ‚mārk]

(computer science)

The maximum number of jobs that are in a queue awaiting execution by a large computer system during a specified period of observation.

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No references found			Her spirits were always at high-water mark, her tongue always going - singing, laughing, and plaguing everybody who would not do the same. Wuthering Heights by Bronte, Emily View in context The place was entirely land-locked, buried in woods, the trees coming right down to high-water mark, the shores mostly flat, and the hilltops standing round at a distance in a sort of amphitheatre, one here, one there. Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context For a day or two the place looked so like an overflowed Arkansas town, because of its currentless waters laving the very doorsteps of all the houses, and the cluster of boats made fast under the windows, or skimming in and out of the alleys and by-ways, that I could not get rid of the impression that there was nothing the matter here but a spring freshet, and that the river would fall in a few weeks and leave a dirty high-water mark on the houses, and the streets full of mud and rubbish. The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context			high-tension high-tension bolt high-tension detonator high-tension separation high-test chain high-tier system high-transmission glass high-vacuum insulation high-vacuum rectifier high-vacuum switching tube high-vacuum tube high-velocity cloud high-velocity duct system high-velocity star high-volatile bituminous coal High-Voltage Accelerator high-voltage direct current high-voltage electron microscope High-Voltage Engineering high-voltage insulation High-Voltage Power Line high-water full and change high-water inequality high-water line high-water lunitidal interval high-water mark high-water platform high-water quadrature high-water springs high-water stand highball Higher Communist Institute of Education higher criticism Higher Education Higher Education National Software Archive Higher Educational Institutions Higher Elementary Schools higher harmonic control higher high water Higher Komsomol School higher low water Higher Mathematics higher mode Higher Nervous Activity higher pair Higher Party School Under the Central Committee of the Communist Party Higher Pedagogical Courses higher plane curve Higher Plants Higher School Higher School of Party Organizers			High-Voltage Slow Electrocortical Activity High-Voltage Slow-Waves High-Voltage Thin-Layer Electrophoresis High-Voltage Transmission Electron Microscope High-Voltage Transmission Line System High-Voltage Transmission Lines High-Voltage-Activated Calcium Channels High-Volume Filter Sampler High-Volume Flow Cell High-Volume Fly Ash Concrete High-Volume Industrial Organics High-Volume Particle Sampler High-Volume Print Forming High-Volume Sampler High-Volume, Basic Computing High-Warning High-Warning Threshold high-warp loom high-water high-water High-Water Base Fluid high-water full and change high-water inequality high-water line high-water lunitidal interval high-water mark high-water marks high-water marks high-water marks high-water platform high-water quadrature high-water springs high-water stand High-Watermark Vector high-wire high-wire act High-Work-Function Electrode high-wrought High-yield high-yield bond high-yield bond high-yield bond high-yield bond high-yield bond high-yield bond fund High-Yield Bond Funds High-yield bonds High-yield bonds High-yield debt High-yield debt High-yield debt High-yield debt high-yield financing High-Yield Fund High-Yield Funds High-Yield Investment

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