Usually means: Multiple overlapping networks of authority.
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  1. heterarchy: Collins English Dictionary
  2. heterarchy: Wordnik
  3. heterarchy: Wiktionary
  4. Heterarchy: Dictionary.com
  5. Heterarchy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Heterarchy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. heterarchy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Heterarchy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. heterarchy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. heterarchy: FreeDictionary.org
  11. heterarchy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. heterarchy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Heterarchy: Cybernetics and Systems

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  1. heterarchy: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (heterarchy)

noun:  (uncountable) The rule of an alien; rule from without; government by an extraterritorial power.
noun:  (countable) An example of this government.
noun:  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.

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