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.
(1994-10-11)
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