Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a hierarchic manner; in conformity to ecclesiastical authority, influence, or interests; by a system of government resembling that of the church.
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- adverb Of, relating to, or arranged in a
hierarchy - adverb Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy.
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- adverb in a hierarchical manner
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An extension of this graph representation, namely hierarchically structured or compound graphs, in which a member of a biological network may recursively contain a sub-network of a somehow logically similar group of biological objects, provides many additional benefits for analysis of biological pathways, including reduction of complexity by decomposition into distinct components or modules.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Ugur Dogrusoz 2009
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A highly requested feature for labels, though, comes from the world of folders: the ability to organize labels hierarchically, "Manu Cornet, software engineer at Google, explained.
Softpedia - Windows - All Lucian Parfeni 2010
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His advisors consistently used "terrorist network" to refer to hierarchically organized, top-down command and control structures, with globalized reach connecting like-minded groups.
Philip N. Howard: A State Department 2.0 Response to the Arab Spring Philip N. Howard 2011
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It concerns the division of the world, hierarchically, into microcells.
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His advisors consistently used "terrorist network" to refer to hierarchically organized, top-down command and control structures, with globalized reach connecting like-minded groups.
Philip N. Howard: A State Department 2.0 Response to the Arab Spring Philip N. Howard 2011
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We knocked the stuffing out of the stratified, hierarchically organized wuss teams.
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It concerns the division of the world, hierarchically, into microcells.
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If viewed hierarchically, this model has an organizational criterion of ancestor-descendant relationship, and the entity at the highest level of organization is first life.
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My first 3D demo, a hierarchically modelled scene using OpenGL, including ms3d model loading and skeletal animation.
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Many liturgical acts are hierarchically ordered: with a role for the Bishop and priest, for the deacon, for those lay people who are assigned a liturgical role as defined by the Church, and for all the people of God.
Liturgy 2009
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