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HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hierarchical structure mean?
• HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE (noun)
The noun HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE has 1 sense:
1. a structure of data having several levels arranged in a treelike structure
Familiarity information: HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A structure of data having several levels arranged in a treelike structure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
hierarchical data structure; hierarchical structure
Hypernyms ("hierarchical structure" is a kind of...):
data structure ((computer science) the organization of data (and its storage allocations in a computer))
Context examples
It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity.
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