Definition of Hierarchical data structure

1. Noun. A structure of data having several levels arranged in a treelike structure.

Exact synonyms: Hierarchical Structure
Generic synonyms: Data Structure

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Literary usage of Hierarchical data structure

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. SAS/ACCESS(R) 9.1 Interface to IMS:: Reference by SAS Institute, Institute SAS Institute (2004)
"A DL/I database has a hierarchical data structure. hierarchical sequence the standard processing sequence for segments of a database record. ..."

2. Generation of Multi-Resolution Maps by Jonas Persson (1993)
"... hierarchical data structure. There is only a map with a reduced number of generalized objects. To achieve a hierarchical structure a new sub-level has ..."

3. Official Documents of the European Community Telecommunications Policy (1994)
"Tracing through the ASN.l Definitions in figure 4 results in a hierarchical data structure. If you follow the arrows which point to the definition of the ..."

4. The Information Universe: Issues in Informing Science and Information by Informing Science Institute, Eli Cohen, Ed. (2006)
"The functional concept graph is a hierarchical data structure: each node n; of the DAG is associated with a level l\. Node n; may have a set of incoming ..."

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