HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hierarchical structure mean? 

• HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE (noun)
  The noun HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE has 1 sense:

1. a structure of data having several levels arranged in a treelike structure

  Familiarity information: HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A structure of data having several levels arranged in a treelike structure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

hierarchical data structure; hierarchical structure

Hypernyms ("hierarchical structure" is a kind of...):

data structure ((computer science) the organization of data (and its storage allocations in a computer))

 Context examples 

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

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