WordNet
n. a structure of data having several levels arranged in a tree-like structure [syn: hierarchical data structure]
Usage examples of "hierarchical structure".
Although Azad is quite far away from the Culture, the future potential threat it could pose to the Culture is significant enough for SC to want to undermine the Empire and its hierarchical structure.
Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.
This method symbolizes the old top-down, hierarchical structure of industry.
It never ceased to amaze Yomin Carr how endlessly these humans could debate and argue about practically anything, an observation that merely reinforced his belief in the strict hierarchical structure of his own society.
As far as he could make out there was no absolute, top-down hierarchical structure at all.
That, their overriding interest in technology, and their rectangular ship construction had led some to make comparisons to the Borg, but the Androssi had a definite hierarchical structure and they were most definitely individuals.
It was just that, while he could just about encompass the hierarchical structure between his own self and Brother Nhumrod, he was unable to give serious consideration to any kind of link between Brutha the novice and the Cenobiarch.
As one of her principal reforms, Empress Stanley Five imposed on society the formal hierarchical structure still in use today.
When the Jovian hit, that complex hierarchical structure was disturbed, as if a baseball had been thrown into a pan of boiling water.
Such ecosystems would also probably have `layers', a hierarchical structure, fundamentally similar to the ecosystems that have emerged in so many different circumstances on Earth.