hierarchical nature

collocation in English

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hierarchical
adjective
uk
/ˌhaɪəˈrɑː.kɪ.kəl/us
/ˌhaɪˈrɑːr.kɪ.kəl/
arranged according to people's or things' level of importance, or relating to such ...
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nature
noun
uk
/ˈneɪ.tʃər/us
/ˈneɪ.tʃɚ/
all the animals, plants, rocks, etc. in the world and all the features, forces, and processes that happen or exist independently of people, such as the weather, the sea, mountains, the production of young animals or plants, ...
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In our case, it is of ahierarchicalnature.
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Thehierarchicalnatureof the corps, however, produced the same problem that early efforts at debating had done.
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Although this problem uses domainspecific data structures and fitness functions, the focus of this work is thehierarchicalnatureof the problem.
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Traditional principal-agent models of delegation stress thehierarchicalnatureof the relationship between the principal and agent while allowing room for agency loss.
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A robust econometric approach addresses issues such as thehierarchicalnatureof the data and the skewed distribution of the original data.
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Thehierarchicalnatureof the latter is highlighted and an analysis of the varying influences of class, colour and ancestry attempted.
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The contemplative dimension of tapestry, its tendency for evenness and its nonhierarchicalnatureare significant when set against the cultural background of sensationalism.
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Whereas the implementation shown is in the domain of space layout problems, the focus is on thehierarchicalnatureof the problem and the decomposition and integration issues.
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Thehierarchicalnatureof this list arises from the fact that the procedure of each lower level is a prerequisite for the functioning of the higher level.
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One example is thehierarchicalnatureof languages.
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It is imperative that thehierarchicalnatureof international development relations in the past is replaced with 21st century partnerships.
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They learn about thehierarchicalnatureof the criminal fraternity and become more and more estranged from normal society.
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I hold a view about thehierarchicalnatureof nature itself that precludes my accepting that analysis.
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Many of the above benefits can be attributed to thehierarchicalnatureof the key data structures, which is not true of the other major solid representation scheme, boundary representation.
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The second is the examination of the institutionalised andhierarchicalnatureof gender and heterosexuality.
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The new model of autobiographical memory relies heavily on thehierarchicalnatureof memory.
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Because of thehierarchicalnatureof the system, re-hashing is an incremental operation (done one bucket at a time, as needed).
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She discusses the mental processes of conceptualization, the nature of definitions, distinguishing legitimate concepts from anti-concepts, thehierarchicalnatureof knowledge, and what constitutes valid axiomatic knowledge.
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