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say it: TAHP-down
top-down is an adjective meaning "of an approach to a problem that begins at the highest conceptual level and works down to the details". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for top-down come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.