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What does hierarchical mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hierarchical? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Pertaining to a hierarchy.
  2. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastic or priestly order.
  3. Classified or arranged according to various criteria into successive ranks or grades.
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Nelson stated that people keep pretending that they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorisable, and sequential when in fact they can't.
Some firms are hierarchical and conservative while others are imaginative risk-takers.
If you imagine a society founded on the rejects of monarchical and hierarchical Europe, then what might you imagine to be the result?
There are essentially four layers of hierarchical division within the Commission bureaucracy.
It's a myth that goes back to the revolution and the triumph of America's ragtag guerrillas against the rigid, hierarchical British army.
This facility is very rule-bound, procedural, and hierarchical, with highly-trained professionals overseeing its operations.

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