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Definition of Hierarchical

1. Adjective. Classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers. "In her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first"

Definition of Hierarchical

1. a. Pertaining to a hierarchy.

Definition of Hierarchical

1. Adjective. Pertaining to a hierarchy. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastic or priestly order. ¹

3. Adjective. Classified or arranged according to various criteria into successive ranks or grades. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hierarchical

1. [adj]

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Literary usage of Hierarchical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bayesian Robustness: Proceedings of the Workshop on Bayesian Robustness, May by James O. Berger (1996)
"Throughout, the role of influence functions is emphasized. 1. Introduction. hierarchical Bayes models have been popular since the fundamental paper of ..."

2. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1890)
"Anti-hierarchical Movements in Germany and Italy.—Even before Joseph II. could carry out his reforms in ecclesiastical polity, the noble elector Maximilian ..."

3. Guide to Writing the Security Features Users Guide for Trusted Systems by David M. Chizmadia (1991)
"classification in the object's security level and the non- hierarchical ... A subject can write an object only if the hierarchical classification in the ..."

4. Guide to Understanding Discretionary Access Control in Trusted Systems by Carole S. Jordan (1987)
"Four basic models for DAC control exist: hierarchical, concept of ownership, ... 8.1.1.1 hierarchical Permissions to specify control of objects can be ..."

5. A Complete Manual of Canon Law by Oswald Joseph Reichel (1896)
"HOLY AND hierarchical ORDERS. 8. There is this distinction between holy and hierarchical orders that holy orders are classes of men considered as having a ..."

6. The Bicentennial Census: New Directions for Methodology in 1990 by Constance F. Citro, Michael L. Cohen (1985)
"hierarchical Bayesian methods (Lindley and Smith, 1972) provide a technique for weighting information from different sources. There is a strong similarity ..."

7. L1-statistical Procedures and Related Topics by Yadolah Dodge (1997)
"Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands Abstract: The classification task of hierarchical clustering can be characterized as one of constructing for an ..."

8. Creation Centred in Christ by Henry Grattan Guinness (1896)
"Analogy in the Existence of a hierarchical Order. The fact that the spiritual order of things made known to us by Revelation forms a department higher than ..."

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