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Hierarchically

//ˈhaɪə(ɹ)ˌɑː(ɹ)k.ɪk.æli// adv

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 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 consensually negotiated."

  2. 2
    Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy.
Adverb
  1. 1
    in a hierarchical manner wordnet

Etymology

From hierarchical + -ly.

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