Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a hierarchy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a hierarchy; ordered in a hierarchy.
- adjective Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy.
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- adjective
hierarchal
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers
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Examples
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Mitochondrial genomes, being maternally inherited and es-sentially clonal, are necessarily related in a nested hierarchic fashion
A New Book 2010
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Mitochondrial genomes, being maternally inherited and es-sentially clonal, are necessarily related in a nested hierarchic fashion
A New Book 2010
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In Mr. Wood's analysis, the force of the democratic principle was bound to undo or modify some of the hierarchic aspects of the Founders' plan.
The Visionary Generation James W. Ceaser 2011
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Himmler modeled not only these outward symbols but also the hierarchic structure of SS leadership itself after the pattern of the orders blessed by the Holy Roman Emperors.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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Himmler modeled not only these outward symbols but also the hierarchic structure of SS leadership itself after the pattern of the orders blessed by the Holy Roman Emperors.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010
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The world has really changed since we first invented our hierarchic systems.
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A hierarchic structure doesn't encourage such a view.
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In a hierarchic system, people try to please one another rather than saying what they actually think.
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In addition, the author points out that contemporary conflict is being conducted on four interrelated levels, in a hierarchic top-down structure from the political, strategic, operational to the tactical level, what seems at first sight no different from the classical definition of war by Von Clausewitz according to which war is the continuation of politics by other means.
Preparing the Ground for Military Aggression Against Venezuela and Latin America 2009
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This was a unique model of leadership, which for reasons of “unity of command” is usually hierarchic, with only one leader at each level of any given social organization.
Poland: Women Leaders in the Jewish Underground During the Holocaust. 2009
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