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nonhierarchical

Definitions

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  • adjective Classified or arranged so that a group or person has the same authority as everyone else; not hierarchical.

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  • adjective not classified hierarchically

Etymologies

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non- +‎ hierarchical.

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Examples

  • I decided that nonhierarchical, equal sharing would allow randomwalks to achieve more creatively.

    Tom Rielly: Meet TED Fellow Sey Min, Founder of randomwalks Media Art Studio in Korea Tom Rielly 2011

  • It is a compelling answer in the post-modern era of nonhierarchical thinking, chaos theory, Wikipedia, the Internet and collective intelligence -- or collective folly.

    In Richmond, a Civil War expert seeks to emancipate history's narrative Fredrick Kunkle 2010

  • I decided that nonhierarchical, equal sharing would allow randomwalks to achieve more creatively.

    Tom Rielly: Meet TED Fellow Sey Min, Founder of randomwalks Media Art Studio in Korea Tom Rielly 2011

  • It is a compelling answer in the post-modern era of nonhierarchical thinking, chaos theory, Wikipedia, the Internet and collective intelligence -- or collective folly.

    In Richmond, a Civil War expert seeks to emancipate history's narrative Fredrick Kunkle 2010

  • Translated into international relations, this millennia-old discourse represents a tradition that is suffused with a monist political ideology that conceives of world order in fundamentally hierarchical terms, idealizes interstate order as tending toward universal hegemony or actual empire, and lacks a meaningful concept of coequal, legitimate sovereignties pursuant to which states may coexist over the long term in nonhierarchical relationships.

    Christian Caryl On China: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Translated into international relations, this millennia-old discourse represents a tradition that is suffused with a monist political ideology that conceives of world order in fundamentally hierarchical terms, idealizes interstate order as tending toward universal hegemony or actual empire, and lacks a meaningful concept of coequal, legitimate sovereignties pursuant to which states may coexist over the long term in nonhierarchical relationships.

    Christian Caryl On China: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • She is the author of The Book of Blessings, a bilingual re-creation of Jewish prayer in poetic forms, written from a nonhierarchical, gender-inclusive perspective.

    Marcia Falk: Statement 2010

  • Translated into international relations, this millennia-old discourse represents a tradition that is suffused with a monist political ideology that conceives of world order in fundamentally hierarchical terms, idealizes interstate order as tending toward universal hegemony or actual empire, and lacks a meaningful concept of coequal, legitimate sovereignties pursuant to which states may coexist over the long term in nonhierarchical relationships.

    Christian Caryl On China: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Well-meaning military innovators had believed that mixed-rank exercises would enhance career development an dencourage nonhierarchical communication, but the actual result was rivalry and recrimination.

    Serious Power Trips « Isegoria 2008

  • But even within the band, their political structures were remarkably nonhierarchical, and their headmen wielded only limited power.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

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