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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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Which is not to say it's not worth it (though you might want to save your money for the impending goody-filled DVD release): Directed by Martin Scorsese and aided and abetted by Band leader Robbie Robertson, ``The Last Waltz,'' even before its soundtrack was cleaned up and made pristine, was one of the high-water marks in the concert-film genre.
The big investment "seems to indicate we're heading back toward the high-water marks of $250 a foot and beyond we saw in the late 1980s," commented Bill Boyd, who heads big brokerage CB Commercial Real Estate Group Inc.
Over the past 20 years the two high-water marks of public support were in 1974 on the eve of the Nixon resignation, and in 1991, during the congressional debate on the Gulf War.
 
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