hierarchy
Large intelligence organisations are very hierarchically structured.
In hierarchically structured societies, consumption of the most sought after goods is restricted to a relatively small class.
It is not easy in a country as hierarchically inclined as ours to continually question authority.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Classifying and creating order
alphabetize
anti-hierarchical
arrange
arrangement
arranger
concordance
describe
macrocosm
misclassification
misclassify
miscode
mislabel
misorder
pigeonhole
short-list
shortlist
sort
sort something out
spring-clean
unstructured

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hierarchically
In order to investigate the differentiation hierarchically, several groupings were considered.
Browsing typically involves traversing of hierarchically arranged categories.
As such, we view a concept as a hierarchically positioned cognitive structure to which properties can be ascribed and in which membership can be asserted.
We begin by hierarchically decomposing the animation into its constituents and start with the animation of the man and the vending machine.
Distribution and dispersal of desert mistletoe is scale-dependent, hierarchically nested.
In this way, there are instrumental goals hierarchically ordered on different levels, reaching all the way up to the universal goals.
The browsing of hierarchically organized information entities allows incremental narrowing and pruning of the organizational structure.
There are three levels of context that can be represented, and they are ordered hierarchically: the mission context, the major contexts, and the sub-contexts.
Despite the hierarchically institutionalized local finance and the illegal practice of overburdening, the manipulation of such incentives served as a way of motivating local authorities.
This domain includes many important applications for natural language interaction, not only relational database applications but also for instance applications utilizing a hierarchically organized database.
The climate and its components (temperature and precipitation) are organised according to different spatial scales that are structured hierarchically.
Cases with multiple congenital heart malformations had their lesions classified hierarchically.
The component models assist to create a distributed hierarchically structured model of the system identical to the actual system.
Repeating such transgression to a higher-order counting process results in a hierarchically structured counting or tallying standard that can be extended to any required size.
Template rules can be used to specify simple combinations of text or a hierarchically defined, linguistically based grammar.
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