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hierarchical

A structure made up of different levels like a company organization chart. The higher levels have control or precedence over the lower levels. Hierarchical structures are a one-to-many relationship; each item having one or more items below it. See hierarchical navigation and hierarchical addressing.

File Systems Are Hierarchical
The system for organizing files on a hard drive or SSD is structured as a hierarchy. The desktop is often placed at the top of the hierarchy, followed by folders and subfolders within the folders. See folder, Win Explorer and file system.
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We aim to reduce the computational cost of classification via SCB by making use of a hierarchical structure of data.
Strict hierarchical structures that allowed the wealthy to embrace luxury foods, such as venison, rabbits, and fish of woodlands and streams as well as spices, fruits, and vegetables of the new lands were under stress as the middling sort sought to mimic the wealthy and the poor tried to use the presence of new items to their fiscal and dietary advantage.
For example, if a variable in feature vector is unrelated to a given classification task, some other variables will be unrelated, either, which is known as hierarchical structure [15].
Complex network has hierarchical structure. In 2008, Claustet et al.
Based on the synthesis systems, different mechanisms and routes have been successfully employed to obtain hierarchical structures.
But within that "family", there is a hierarchical structure. And Soriano kindly gave details.
The study also showed that unlike the hierarchical structure of a mafia, such crimes are more democratic in nature.
After 30 years in the travel industry Ms Biggs took up her current role in 2010 having been a member of the RHS for 18 years, She said: "It was, I discovered, a hierarchical structure and my initial task was to listen to people's anxieties following a huge redundancy programme of which the public knew nothing about."
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