belowground vs low-level

belowground

adj
  • beneath the surface of the ground; underground 

low-level

adj
  • Situated or occurring at a lower level. 

  • of, or relating to a program, or to code in which each statement corresponds to a single machine instruction 

  • detailed 

  • relatively unimportant 

  • not intense 

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