hierarchical

Adjective
Synonyms: hierarchalhierarchic

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

  1. classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers“it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art”“in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first”Synonyms: hierarchalhierarchic
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

hierarchic \hi`er*arch"ic\, hierarchical \hi`er*arch"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. hi['e]rarchique.] Of or pertaining to a hierarchy; ordered in a hierarchy. -- Hi`er*arch`ic*al*ly, adv.

Syn: hierarchical, hierarchal. [1913 Webster]

2.Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy; as, a hierarchical relation. [PJC]

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