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hierarchical
/ˌhaɪˈɹɑɹkɪkəl/
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What does hierarchical mean?
adjective
- Pertaining to a hierarchy (a ranking).
- Classified or arranged according to various criteria into successive ranks or grades.
- Reflecting relationships wholly consisting of subranks subsumed by ranks, a branching pattern of logic modeled like a tree.
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adjective
- Pertaining to a hierarch (a high-ranking priest or bishop).
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌhaɪˈɹɑɹkɪkəl/
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Moreover, from the social point of view the hierarchical value of an idea, its intrinsic worth, is without importance.
The administrative power in the United States presents nothing either central or hierarchical in its constitution, which accounts for its passing, unperceived.
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The principle of status runs through the entire hierarchical system, both visible and invisible.
And her picture of the minutely hierarchical constitution of the society of that city, which she presented to him in many different lights, was, to Winterbourne’s imagination, almost oppressively striking.