higher-order

English

Etymology

From higher +‎ orderCategory:English compound terms#HIGHERORDER.

Adjective

higher-order (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#HIGHERORDERCategory:English adjectives#HIGHERORDERCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#HIGHERORDERCategory:English multiword terms#HIGHERORDERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HIGHERORDERCategory:Pages with entries#HIGHER-ORDERCategory:Pages with 1 entry#HIGHER-ORDER

  1. Involving more sophisticated thinking or reasoning.
  2. Of or relating to a class higher up in a hierarchy.
    • 2021, Trevor George Gardner, “By Any Means: A Philosophical Frame for Rulemaking Reform in Criminal Law”, in Yale Law Journal Forum‎, page 819:
      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.
      Category:English terms with quotations#HIGHERORDER
  3. (mathematicsCategory:en:Mathematics#HIGHERORDER) Of order 2 or greater.

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