hierarchical
pronunciation
How to pronounce hierarchical in British English:
UK [ˌhaɪəˈrɑ:kɪkl]
How to pronounce hierarchical in American English:
US [ˌhaɪəˈrɑrkɪkl]
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- Adjective:
- classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers
Word Origin
- hierarchical (adj.)
- 1560s, from hierarchic + -al (1). Related: Hierarchically.
Example
- 1. The importance of angels to the divine enterprise makes them naturally hierarchical .
- 2. Things are different in southern europe , where doctor-patient relationships aremore hierarchical .
- 3. Yan uses these essays to argue for his notion that relations between states are , or should be , inherently hierarchical .
- 4. The application of hierarchical cluster on balance fertilization of tobacco .
- 5. Hearing from dalits , who long sat at the bottom of the heap in nastily hierarchical villages , he learns that as more of them get a job , money or land , some of the old oppression is beginning visibly to lift .