high-water mark

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• In computing, the program recorded a high-water mark to manage memory usage effectively.

• Monitoring the high-water mark helps in planning for additional storage needs in the future.

• The performance demands for dedupe of primary storage are acknowledged as the high water mark for dedupe performance.

  Blog text (1)

• The PUD also provides maximum block sizes of 2.5 acres and 200-foot setbacks from the river's high water mark.

  Academic text (2001)

• Added to reductions announced in previous budgets, the total decrease in defense budget authority throughout 1997 was approximately 33% relative to the high water mark for defense in FY 1985.

  Academic text (1993)

• Recession rates obtained from cartographic evidence at Colhuw are of the order of 0.4 to 1.2 meters a year, on the basis of measurements taken at low water mark and high water mark, respectively.

  Academic text (1991)

• In this context, the one-hundred-year storm surge for the eastern zone of the Bristol Channel is at present 7.8 meters above the mean high water mark (Williams and Davies 1987b).

  Academic text (1991)

• The protection of the dunes from erosion is also important to other species in the same ecosystem, including threatened green sea turtles and endangered loggerhead sea turtles, both of which nest at night on the beach area between the high water mark and the top of the primary dunes.

  Academic text (1998)

Synonyms

P

peak

vshigh-water mark

368 2.1

The highest point something reaches, like a mountain or an achievement

is a recorded maximum resource level used to trigger cleanup or scaling

W

watermark

vshigh-water mark

2 4.9

A mark on a wall showing the highest water level after a flood

is a recorded maximum resource level used to trigger cleanup or scaling

Antonyms

L

low-water mark

5.8

A visible line showing the lowest level reached by water

How High

overlimit

6.8

high-water mark

• Specialized

5.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology