hierarchically

English

Etymology

From hierarchical +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪə(ɹ)ˌɑː(ɹ)k.ɪk.æli/, /ˈhaɪə(ɹ)ˌɑː(ɹ)k.ɪkli/, /ˈhaɪə(ɹ)ˌæk.ɪkli/

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Adverb

hierarchically (comparative more hierarchically, superlative most hierarchically)

1. Of, relating to, or arranged in a hierarchy.
   • 1987 May 1, Stuart Hannabuss, “Collaborating over Meanings in Management: Drucker Looks at Effectiveness”, in Personnel Review, volume 16, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, page 34:

     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 consensually negotiated.

2. Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy.

Translations

of or relating to a hierarchy

• French: hiérarchiquement (fr)
• Galician: xerarquicamente (gl)
• German: hierarchisch (de)
• Hungarian: hierarchikusan
• Italian: gerarchicamente (it)
• Polish: hierarchicznie (pl)
• Russian: иерархически (ru) (ijerarxičeski)
• Spanish: jerárquicamente (es)
• Ukrainian: ієрархі́чно (ijerarxíčno)

pertaining to a transitive relation between objects