'hierarchical' definitions:
Definition of 'hierarchical'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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: hierarchical, hierarchal, hierarchic] [ant: nonhierarchic, nonhierarchical]
Definition of 'hierarchical'
From: GCIDE
- hierarchic \hi`er*arch"ic\, hierarchical \hi`er*arch"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. hi['e]rarchique.] Of or pertaining to a hierarchy; ordered in a hierarchy. -- Hi`er*arch`ic*al*ly, adv.
- Syn: hierarchical, hierarchal. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy; as, a hierarchical relation. [PJC]