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adjectiveclassified according to various criteria into successive levels or layersOpposite:
Definition that contains hierarchical
- fascism a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)
- tenure the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands
- unranked not arranged in order hierarchically
- ungraded not arranged in order hierarchically
- ontology (computer science) a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant entities and their relations
- stratified (used of society) socially hierarchical
- nonhierarchical not classified hierarchically
- unordered not arranged in order hierarchically
- hierarchical classification system a classification system where entries are arranged based on some hierarchical structure
- pyramid scheme a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in