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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