hierarchical structure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhierarchicalandstructure
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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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structure
noun
uk/ˈstrʌk.tʃər/us/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in ...
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These federations had a veryhierarchicalstructure.
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Thehierarchicalstructureof the states is clearly visible.
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It is convenient to give the proof ahierarchicalstructure.
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Adopting ahierarchicalstructurefor storing knowledge seems initially attractive.
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The present study investigated both the development ofhierarchicalstructurein families from infancy to late middle childhood and relations between strong hierarchical structure and children's conduct problems.
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In contrast, for databases, ahierarchicalstructureis in general not intuitive.
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A dotted line specifies ahierarchicalstructureof a dependency graph constructed from a template.
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Consequently, the only 'tools' allowed are thehierarchicalstructureof ambients, their movements and openings.
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In this study, populations containing half- and fullsibs were assumed to be in ahierarchicalstructure.
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To address thehierarchicalstructureof the data, two levels of equations were estimated.
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If there were some feedback an originallyhierarchicalstructurewould be broken, resulting in multiple codes.
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Motivational explanations come at different levels and may resemble thehierarchicalstructureof plans.
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Yet it obviously lacked the standardized, systematic andhierarchicalstructureof modern appeal systems.
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Two things are noteworthy about thehierarchicalstructureof the economist's behavior qua economist.
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Indeed, the mere possibility of expressinghierarchicalstructurein a grammar does not guarantee its utility.
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Typically, each indexing code has ahierarchicalstructureused to facilitate coding and retrieval.
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Thehierarchicalstructureof the data is conceptualized as repeated measures nested within individuals.
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Is thathierarchicalstructureto be continued?
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It is characterised by ahierarchicalstructure.
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The concept of 'empire' still has some validity when trying to understand thehierarchicalstructureof international society.
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For example, we tend to show thehierarchicalstructureof programs by indentation rather than brackets and semicolons.
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This is not to gloss over the potential problems that ahierarchicalstructuremay itself generate within civil society.
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Its internal make-up directly reflects the tripartitehierarchicalstructurewe talked about in the previous section.
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The domain ontology systematizes the fundamental aspects of the design semantics by defining taxonomies organized in ahierarchicalstructure.
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