jmdict 1352590 Active (id#1084816)
上位 [news1,nf03]
じょうい [news1,nf03]
  1. [n,adj-no]
    • superior (in rank)
    • top
    • ranking
    Cross references:
    • ⇐ see: 2414140 上位四校【じょういしこう】 1. schools of the upper quartile; highly ranked schools
  2. [n] {computing}
    • higher order (e.g. byte)
  3. [n] {computing}
    • host computer (of connected device)
History:
    • A 2012-02-06 22:25:08 Jim Breen
    • Comments
      I think this is just another way of expressing sense 1. For (virtually) all "adj-no", the の is often dropped, so the "n-pref" POS is not really needed.
    • Diff
      @@ -17,1 +17,2 @@
      -<gloss>superior (rank not class)</gloss>
      +<gloss>superior (in rank)</gloss>
      +<gloss>top</gloss>
      @@ -19,4 +20,0 @@
      -</sense>
      -<sense>
      -<pos>&n-pref;</pos>
      -<gloss>top (members of a ranking, e.g. top 3 companies)</gloss>
    • A* 2012-02-06 15:21:07 Nils Roland Barth
    • Comments
      Add sense “top N (companies etc.)” – saw used as this in class, and “top N companies” specifically is a common pattern (in textbook, GG5, and our current example sentence).
    • Refs
      GG5 example
    • Diff
      @@ -21,0 +21,4 @@
      +<pos>&n-pref;</pos>
      +<gloss>top (members of a ranking, e.g. top 3 companies)</gloss>
      +</sense>
      +<sense>
    • A 2011-09-15 08:38:49 Rene Malenfant
    • A* 2011-09-15 07:07:16 Jim Breen
    • Refs
      Mainichi article use of 上位独占, 上位の独占 gets 300k hits.
    • Diff
      @@ -16,0 +16,1 @@
      +<pos>&adj-no;</pos>
      @@ -17,0 +18,1 @@
      +<gloss>ranking</gloss>
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