hierarchic

4 definitions found

hierarchic - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hierarchal \Hi"er*arch`al\, Hierarchic \Hi`er*arch"ic\, a.
     Pertaining to a hierarch. "The great hierarchal standard."
     --Milton.
     [1913 Webster] hierarchic

  hierarchic \hi`er*arch"ic\, hierarchical \hi`er*arch"ic*al\, a.
     [Cf. F. hi['e]rarchique.]
     Of or pertaining to a hierarchy; ordered in a hierarchy. --
     Hi`er*arch`ic*al*ly, adv.
  
     Syn: hierarchical, hierarchal.
          [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by
        which they may be ordered into a hierarchy; as, a
        hierarchical relation.
        [PJC]

hierarchic - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  hierarchic
      adj 1: classified according to various criteria into successive
             levels or layers; "it has been said that only a
             hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can
             produce works of art"; "in her hierarchical set of values
             honesty comes first" [syn: hierarchical, hierarchal,
             hierarchic] [ant: nonhierarchic, nonhierarchical]

hierarchic - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "hierarchic":
     assorted, cataloged, classified, filed, graded, grouped,
     hierarchal, indexed, on file, pigeonholed, placed, pyramidal,
     ranked, rated, sorted, stratified, tabular, theocratic,
     theocratist