HIERARCHICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hierarchical mean? 

• HIERARCHICAL (adjective)
  The adjective HIERARCHICAL has 1 sense:

1. classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers

  Familiarity information: HIERARCHICAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIERARCHICAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers

Synonyms:

hierarchal; hierarchic; hierarchical

Context example:

in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first

Similar:

class-conscious; stratified ((used of society) socially hierarchical)

gradable (capable of being graded (for quality or rank or size etc.))

graded; ranked; stratified (arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks)

vertical (of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group))

Antonym:

nonhierarchical (not classified hierarchically)

Derivation:

hierarchy (a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system)

 Context examples 

A specific non-hierarchical, named relationship between concepts present in the NCI Thesaurus.

(NCI Thesaurus Role, NCI Thesaurus)

An association is a non-hierarchical, named relationship between a source and target concept that does not affect classification and is not inherited by child concepts during classification.

(NCI Thesaurus Association, NCI Thesaurus)

The vertical, hierarchical relationships may be referred to as Parent, Child, Broader, Narrower, isa, inverse-isa, Super Concept, Subconcept, etc. The horizontal named relationships include Roles and Associations.

(Concept Relationship, NCI Thesaurus)

A segmented numeric drug code assigned by Medi-Span, using a hierarchical classification scheme encompassing drug group, class, sub-class, name, name extension and dosage.

(Medi-Span Generic Product Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

The specification of a node (file or directory) in a hierarchical file system, usually specified by listing the nodes top-down.

(Pathname, NCI Thesaurus)

It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity.

(Medical Subject Headings, NCI Thesaurus)