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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hierarchical
adjective
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■ NOUN
authority
▪ Their power, prestige, privilege and status essentially camouflaged the subjects' compliance to hierarchical authority.
▪ More often than not, leaders retain some hierarchical authority even if modified.
▪ Take full advantage of the hierarchical authority directly exercisable by you and those of your colleagues prepared to live the change.
▪ If they have the hierarchical authority to influence the performance agendas of the people who matter, change leaders should use it.
▪ Most leaders, however, mistakenly assume that hierarchical authority is the only way to gain performance commitments from people.
▪ With their hierarchical authority and functional specialization, they made possible the efficient undertaking of large, complex tasks.
▪ They waste time negotiating for the realignment of hierarchical authority and the top management commitment of those who have it.
model
▪ The connections or links are explicit in the hierarchical model.
▪ This is depicted in the three-level hierarchical model shown in Fig. 3. 4.
▪ It is possible to express many-to-many relationships using the hierarchical model, but only by creating two hierarchies.
▪ An obvious advantage of the hierarchical model is that the reinvestigation is conducted by more experienced investigators.
▪ It is difficult to establish the precise rationale for the traditional hierarchical model which pervades the educational system.
▪ The illogicality of the existing hierarchical model for educational institutions is highlighted by applying the following criteria: 1.
▪ The skyscraper metaphor is apt, for our only hope to understanding such complexity is with a hierarchical model.
▪ The Chart-based model used in the following experiments can be considered a hybrid between the blackboard and the hierarchical models.
organization
▪ We might almost say that successful businesses have had to succeed despite hierarchical organization rather than because of it.
▪ Structurally, bureaucracy is characterized by hierarchical organization and specialization by means of an elaborate division of labor.
▪ The answer was a hierarchical organization run by the timetable, the rule book, and the stopwatch.
structure
▪ They also, to a greater or lesser extent, existed outside mainstream, predominantly male controlled, hierarchical structures.
▪ What level in the hierarchical structure do you want to be at?
▪ The indexes are grouped to form a hierarchical structure whose root is the Master Level Index shown in figure 2.1.
▪ Many difficulties faced in the public sector will stem from the formal, hierarchical structure within which such relationships take place.
▪ These relationships may be fairly loose groupings into categories or a more complete hierarchical structure.
▪ It represented a form of opposition to the rigidly hierarchical structures of Rome.
▪ Like the other examples of structural power, the hierarchical structure creates and depends upon a situation of power imbalance.
system
▪ In hard-copy systems one finds a paper by applying one's knowledge of how hierarchical systems work.
▪ An important feature to explain is why a hierarchical system is invariably found in organizations such as firms.
▪ This is what hierarchical systems ought to be about.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ However, unelected, time limited, hierarchical agencies have played an important role in central government initiatives to solve social problems.
▪ In hard-copy systems one finds a paper by applying one's knowledge of how hierarchical systems work.
▪ More often than not, leaders retain some hierarchical authority even if modified.
▪ There is an hierarchical structure, but managerial authority is respected as a benign guardian of company interests.
▪ They waste time negotiating for the realignment of hierarchical authority and the top management commitment of those who have it.
▪ What level in the hierarchical structure do you want to be at?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hierarchical

hierarchic \hi`er*arch"ic\, hierarchical \hi`er*arch"ic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a hierarchy; ordered in a hierarchy. -- Hi`er*arch`ic*al*ly, adv.

Syn: hierarchical, hierarchal.

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

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hierarchical

1560s, from hierarchic + -al (1). Related: Hierarchically.\n

Wiktionary
hierarchical

a. 1 Pertaining to a hierarchy. 2 Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastic or priestly order. 3 Classified or arranged according to various criteria into successive ranks or grades.

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WordNet
hierarchical

adj. 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" [syn: hierarchal, hierarchic] [ant: nonhierarchical]

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Usage examples of "hierarchical".

The men who gathered on the other side fell into a pattern according to their hierarchical place within the clan, but Mog-ur was not in sight.

Their breakthrough consisted of characterizing very short and scrambled repetitive sequences within junk DNA that could be demonstrated to code instructions for higher hierarchical operations than they were used to seeing at the gene level -cell differentiation, information order sequencing, apoptosis and the like.

Their breakthrough consisted in characterizing very short and scrambled repetitive sequences within junk DNA that could be shown to code instructions for higher hierarchical operations than they were used to seeing at the gene levelcell differentiation, information order sequencing, apoptosis, and the like.

I found that the hierarchical nature of musical time is a consequence of the constraint that musical rhythm should contain multiple regular beats, so there is no need to make specific assumptions about the existence and perception of hierarchy just to explain this feature of musical time.

Activity in this cortical map has a constant pattern if and only if musical time consists of beats from a hierarchical sequence of beat periods such that each beat period is a multiple of the next period in the sequence.

The Twelve Monkeys have their own long table and are seated there in some very precise hierarchical order known only to them, each positioned exactly the same with his ankles crossed under his chair and a steno notebook and towering bottle of Evian at his left hand.

All the old Adorers of Nature, the Theologians, Astrologers, and Poets, as well as the most distinguished Philosophers, supposed that the Stars were so many animated and intelligent beings, or eternal bodies, active causes of effect here below, animated by a living principle, and directed by an intelligence that was itself but an emanation from and a part of the life and universal intelligence of the world: and we find in the hierarchical order and distribution of their eternal and divine Intelligences, known by the names of Gods, Angels, and Genii, the same distributions and the same divisions as those by which the ancients divided the visible Universe and distributed its parts.

And the famous divisions by seven and by twelve, appertaining to the planets and the signs of the zodiac, is everywhere found in the hierarchical order of the Gods, and Angels, and the other Ministers that are the depositaries of that Divine Force which moves and rules the world.

La Justicia was a hierarchical organization with a military discipline, in which women had no place.

Hissing commands and arguments in the native dialect, posturing herself to convey a plethora of kinesthetic signals: territorial combat fought with words and hisses, hierarchical issues resolved with the ruffling of fur, the stiffening of neck muscles.

When we are ill there is a failure of coordination at one or more levels in these hierarchies, and the clarification of the relation of body to mind and psychosomatic illness requires a hierarchical approach.

A first, neocolonial phase involved the continuity of the old hierarchical imperialist procedures and the maintenance ifnot deepening of the mechanisms of unequal exchange between subordinated regions and dominant nationstates.

The only way to do that is to stairstep to root access, which is at the top node of the hierarchical directory tree.

Such hierarchical structure and combination into systems of ever higher order, is characteristic of reality as a whole and is of fundamental importance especially in biology, psychology and sociology.

They cannot fully represent the hierarchical, multifaceted, multilayered structure of the Formative Mind.