hierarchy
An organisation with few things, or one thing, at the top and with several things below each other thing. An inverted tree structure. Examples in computing include a directory hierarchy where each directory may contain files or other directories; a hierarchical network (see hierarchical routing), a class hierarchy in object-oriented programming.Last updated: 1994-10-11
Nearby terms:
Hierarchical Object Oriented Design ♦ hierarchical routing ♦ hierarchy ♦ Higgs Bugson ♦ high bit
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