Meaning of HIERARCHY
| Pronunciation: | | 'hIu`rârkee
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- [n] the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
- [n] a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values"
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| | Synonyms: | | pecking order, power structure |
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| | See Also: | | administration, brass, data hierarchy, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization, series, system, taxonomy | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Hi"er*arch`y\, n.; pl. {Hierarchies}. [Gr. ?: cf. F.
hi['e]rarchie.]
1. Dominion or authority in sacred things.
2. A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and
orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of
ecclesiastical rulers.
3. A form of government administered in the church by
patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in
an inferior degree, by priests. --Shipley.
4. A rank or order of holy beings.
Standards and gonfalons . . . for distinction serve
Of hierarchies, of orders, and degrees. --Milton.
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| | Definition: | | An organisation with few things, or one thing, at the top and with several things below each other thing. An inverted tree structure. Examples in computing include a directory hierarchy where each directory may contain files or other directories; a hierarchical network (see hierarchical routing), a class hierarchy in object-oriented programming. |
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