Cyber Glossary
Cyberlaw dictionary is an alphabetical reference guide to technical and legal terms related to the Internet. The site you are now browsing contains over 500 definitions of words drawn from Standard Internet English including technical terms and their meanings. Our aim is to explain basic technical jargon of cyberspace to those who are not familiar with its jargon. We've given preference to terms that are widely used, like modem or bandwidth, and to those that describe new concepts specific to the Internet experience such as phishing or sexting.
Hierarchical
a system of organization similar to the chain of command in the military where the root of the hierarchy is the primary element in the system. Using the military example, the President is the leader of all of the armed forces, followed by the head of the joint chiefs of staff, then the top generals and admirals in the various branches of the military, etc. A similar system is used in categorizing the data contained on a computer, beginning with a computer’s root directories, then subdirectories, folders, and files.
