Having two orders or ranks; belonging to or arranged in two different levels of organization or classification.
From Latin 'di-' (two) and 'ordinalis' (relating to order). This is a technical term that emerged in mathematics and logic for systems with dual hierarchies.
This is one of those beautiful technical words that scientists invented to describe complexity—it's the mathematical way of saying 'this thing exists on two different levels at once.'
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