Hierarchic

Definition: Hierarchic

Hierarchic

Adjective

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".

Date "hierarchic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Database model in which the different pieces of information are organized in an arborescent scheme. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Hierarchic

Synonyms: hierarchal (adj), hierarchical (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: nonhierarchical (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Hierarchic

Specialty definitions using "hierarchic": delimiter ♦ information separator ♦ separating character, separation character. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Hierarchic Concept of Matter and Field. Water, Biosystems & Elementary Particles (reference) Hierarchic recognition of tumors in chest radiographs with computer (reference) (more book examples)
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"Hierarchic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hierarchic" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	17	85,106

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "hierarchic": non-hierarchic.
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Language		Translations for "hierarchic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		йерархически. (various references)

Chinese		等级制度 (hierarchical, hierarchically). (various references)

Danish		hierarkisk (hierarchical). (various references)

Dutch		hiërarchisch (hierarchical). (various references)

Finnish		hierarkkinen (hierarchical). (various references)

French		hiérarchique (hierarchical). (various references)

German		hierarchisch (hierachic, hierarchical). (various references)

Greek		ιεραρχικός (hierarchical, hierarchical constraint set). (various references)

Hungarian		hivatalos (academic, bearing an official stamp, breach of trust, formal, hierarchical, official, officiary), hivatali (administrative, clerkly, hierarchical, magisterial, trappings), hierarchikus (hierarchal, hierarchical), rangsor szerinti (hierarchical), főpapi (hierarchical, pontifical), előírásszerű (hierarchical). (various references)

Italian		gerarchico (hierarchical, hierarchical constraint set). (various references)

Manx		ard-saggyrtagh (hierarchical, pontifical), ard-chleragh (hierarchical, principal clerk). (various references)

Pig Latin		ierarchichay

Portuguese		hierárquica (hierarchical). (various references)

Spanish		jerárquico (hierarchical). (various references)

Swedish		hierarkisk databasmodell (hierarchical), hierarkisk. (various references)

Turkish		hiyerarşik (hierarchical), aşamalı (gradual, hierarchical, staggered). (various references)

Vietnamese		có thứ bậc (hierarchical), có tôn ti (hierarchical). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "hierarchic": hierarchical, hierarchically. (additional references)
	Words containing "hierarchic": antihierarchical, nonhierarchical. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Hierarchic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: heirarchic, hierarchists. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-h-h-i-i-r-r"
	-2 letters: hierarch.
	-3 letters: charier, hairier.
	-4 letters: achier, airier, archer, cahier, chicer, chichi, chirre, racier, richer, ricrac.
	-5 letters: airer, areic, cache, carer, cerci, ceria, ceric, chair, chare, charr, chirr, circa, cirri, crier, erica, hirer, icier, racer, reach, ricer.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-h-h-i-i-r-r"
	+2 letters: hierarchical.
	+4 letters: hierarchically.
	+5 letters: nonhierarchical.
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