| Naming authorities may be arranged hierarchically, with child authorities existing beneath a parent namespace. |
| Treemapping is a method of area-based visualization that uses nested quadrangles to summarize large amounts of hierarchically organized data. |
| Biological information is hierarchically organized and it is also hierarchically interpreted and used by living organisms. |
| Positioned hierarchically above the crowd like a god, King Leopold looks through a lorgnette but seems not to notice the violence below. |
| Just because a corporation or a country seems to be hierarchically structured does not mean that any single leader is really in charge. |
| Ephemeral stream channels are organized hierarchically on the bajada slopes from the mountains to the valley bottoms. |
