Examples of use of higher-order
1. It could do that by "higher–order" processing –– something akin to mental software –– that unscrambles the message.
2. I thought they were of a higher order." In 1''2, Miss Singleton was asked to go to Iraq for military training.
3. Only by turning our backs on selfishness will we achieve the maturity we, as a species, need in order to move to a higher order of being.
4. And, of course, from architectural service you move to contracting and engineering services, so I still regard them as services but of a higher order.
5. They begin at Callon, which indicates that crime here is of a much higher order than in neighbouring Fishwick, which is predominantly Muslim and south Asian.