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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

higher-order en · ADJ

Etymology

From higher + order.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Involving more sophisticated thinking or reasoning.
    • higher-order thinking
  2. (not-comparable) Of or relating to a class higher up in a hierarchy.
    • It is at least plausible that expert-level crime policy rulemaking (in the interest of reform) may be necessary in a system... [which] will thus remain susceptible to the prospect of punitive populism arising within any one of an array of higher-order bounded publics. 2021, Trevor George Gardner, “By Any Means: A Philosophical Frame for Rulemaking Reform in Criminal Law”, in Yale Law Journal Forum, page 819:
  3. (not-comparable) Of order 2 or greater.

Relateds

higher-order function

Translations (7)

gl de orde superior (mathematics: of order 2 or greater) · it di ordine superiore (mathematics: of order 2 or greater) · fr d'ordre supérieur (mathematics: of order 2 or greater) · ast d'orde cimeru (mathematics: of order 2 or greater) · es de orden superior (mathematics: of order 2 or greater) · ca d'ordre superior (mathematics: of order 2 or greater) · pt de ordem superior (mathematics: of order 2 or greater)