hierarchical
adjective
of, belonging to, or characteristic of a hierarchy.
hierarchically
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a word derived from
hierarchical.
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a word derived from
hierarchy.
hierarchynounany system of persons or things ranked one above another.
Example Sentences
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Based on investigation of the scattering system found in the beetle's scales, the cooling ceramic was engineered with a hierarchically porous structure.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024
This time around, all participants will be seated together at hierarchically neutral round tables to facilitate discussion.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2023
Nor can you, apparently, be a successful, divorced, outspoken biracial American career woman and thrive among the hierarchically ossified, stiff-upper-lip royal family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
The Assyrian population was made up of four hierarchically organized classes: the nobility, the professional class, the peasantry, and the enslaved.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
The simple answer is that matter, information, and biology are inherently hierarchically organized: understanding that smallest part is crucial to understanding the whole.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
