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How to pronounce “heterarchy”
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Pronunciation guide for heterarchy
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of heterarchy with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- John Maeda: How art, technology and design inform creative leaders 16 minutes
It's a heterarchy instead of a hierarchy. And that's kind of awkward.
- Definition summary
- (uncountable) The rule of an alien; rule from without; government by an extraterritorial power.[1]
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How to pronounce heterarchy
John Maeda: How art, technology and design inform creative leaders 16 minutes

It's a heterarchy instead of a hierarchy. And that's kind of awkward.
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A Deep Dive Into “heterarchy”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (uncountable) The rule of an alien; rule from without; government by an extraterritorial power.[1]
- (countable) An example of this government.
- A system of organization where the elements of the organization are unranked (non-hierarchical) or where they possess the potential to be ranked a number of different ways.[2]
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