hierarchically

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hierarchically

  • /ˈhaɪə(ɹ)ˌɑː(ɹ)k.ɪk.æli/ UK
  • /ˈhaɪə(ɹ)ˌɑː(ɹ)k.ɪkli/ UK
  • /ˈhaɪə(ɹ)ˌæk.ɪkli/ UK

adverb more hierarchically · most hierarchically

  1. Of, relating to, or arranged in a hierarchy. Unlike, say, botany or zoology, or even in a thesaural structure of a knowledge database, where the syntactical and semantic relationships between concepts is often highly ordered (e.g. hierarchically, cohyponymically), the central concepts and meanings in the field of management are more consensual
  2. Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy.

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adv of or relating to a hierarchy

Españoljerárquicamente
Françaishiérarchiquement
Deutschhierarchisch
Italianogerarchicamente
Русскийиерархически ijerarxičeski

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@misc{hierarchically_2026,
  title = {hierarchically},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hierarchically},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}