of a hierarchy
also hi·er·ar′chic
adjective
The definition of hierarchical is something that is organized in terms of rank, or where rigid distinctions of power are identified and complied with.
A military system where there are clearly defined ranks and everyone must obey people ranked above them is an example of a hierarchical system.
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hierarchical
or hi·er·ar·chic or hi·er·ar·chal
adjective
Of or relating to a hierarchy.
Related Forms:
- hi′er·ar′chi·cal·ly
adverb
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Adjective
(not comparable)
- Pertaining to a hierarchy.
- Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastic or priestly order.
- Classified or arranged according to various criteria into successive ranks or grades.
- It has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art. - source?
Origin
Compare French hiérarchique.
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hierarchical - Computer Definition
A structure made up of different levels like a company organization chart. The higher levels have control or precedence over the lower levels. Hierarchical structures are a one-to-many relationship; each item having one or more items below it. See hierarchical navigation and hierarchical addressing. File Systems Are Hierarchical The system for organizing files on a hard drive or SSD is structured as a hierarchy. The desktop is often placed at the top of the hierarchy, followed by folders and subfolders within the folders. See folder, Win Explorer and file system.
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Sentence Examples
- There had never been an absence of protest against the hierarchical doctrine.
- This hierarchical tie was soon snapped, but the Hellenizing influence continued to work, and bore its most abundant fruit in the 5th century.
- It is the union of these ideas with a hierarchical system, and with the temporal sovereignty of the head of that system in Tibet, which constitutes what is distinctively understood by the term Lamaism.
- On the other hand, it must be admitted that the Church did not, after the first struggle between Dagobert and Baldwin I., actively oppose by any hierarchical pretensions the authority of the crown.
- Among these are the supposed traces of 2nd-century Gnosticism and " hierarchical " ideas of organization; but especially the argument from the relation of the Roman state to the Christians, which Ramsay has reversed and turned into proof of an origin prior to Pliny's correspondence with Trajan on the subject.
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WORDS NEAR hierarchical IN THE DICTIONARY
- hierarchical
- hierarch
- hierarchal
- hierarchial