higher-order

English

Etymology

higher +‎ order

Adjective

higher-order (not comparable)

1. Involving more sophisticated thinking or reasoning.

   higher-order thinking

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^[1], 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.

See also

• higher-order function