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hierarchy - definition and meaning
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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A group of persons or things organized into successive ranks or grades with each level subordinate to the one above.
- noun Categorization or arrangement of a group of people or things into such ranks or grades.
- noun A body of persons having authority.
- noun A group of animals in which certain members or subgroups dominate or submit to others.
- noun One of three main divisions of angels in traditional Christian angelology.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The power or dominion of a hierarch; hallowed or consecrated authority in what concerns religious order or government.
- noun Government by ecclesiastical rulers; an ecclesiastical or priestly form of government. —
- noun An order of holy beings regarded as employed in divine government.
- noun A body of persons organized in ranks and orders for the exercise of rule oversacred things; hence, an organized body of ecclesiastics intrusted with government of either church or state; also, a similarly organized body of officials in other systems of government: as, the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
- noun In science, a series of successive terms of different rank. The terms kingdom, order, suborder, family, genus, and species constitute a hierarchy in zoölogy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Dominion or authority in sacred things.
- noun A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.
- noun A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests.
- noun A rank or order of holy beings.
- noun (Math., Logic, Computers) Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it; also, the entire set of ordering relations between such objects. The ordering relation between each object and the one above is called a hierarchical relation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A body of authoritative
officials organized innested ranks . - noun Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system
- noun the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English ierarchie, from Old French, from Medieval Latin hierarchia, from Greek hierarkhiā, rule of a high priest, from hierarkhēs, high priest; see hierarch.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Middle English ierarchie from Latin hierarchia, from Ancient Greek ἱεραρχία (hierarkhia, "rule of a high priest"), from ἱεράρχης (hierarkhēs, "high priest"), from ἱερεύς (hiereus, "priest") and ἀρχή (arkhē, "rule"). Compare French hiérarchie.
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Examples
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The label hierarchy couldn't have been that disgruntled.
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And the hierarchy is a "self-perpetuating elite," he continued.
Cara McDonough: Why I'm (Still) Catholic Cara McDonough 2010
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In less austere terms, a hierarchy is a collection of parts with ordered asymmetric relationships inside a whole.
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And the hierarchy is a "self-perpetuating elite," he continued.
Cara McDonough: Why I'm (Still) Catholic Cara McDonough 2010
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The features are pretty self explanatory, with Nested Labels, you will be able to create a label hierarchy, like you could with folders, and Message Sneak Peek allows you to see a preview of the email without actually opening it.
Softpedia - Windows - All Lucian Parfeni 2010
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Our agreed definition of a nested hierarchy is an ordered set such that each subset is strictly contained within its superset.
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Here's Wikipedia on the Nested Hierarchy: A nested hierarchy is the name given to the classification of objects into a hierarchical structure of "groups within groups" or "branches from a trunk".
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Zachriel sez to screw those priniciples a nested hierarchy is what I say it is.
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A nested hierarchy is just a mathematical structure as defined above.
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Our agreed definition of a nested hierarchy is an ordered set such that each subset is strictly contained within its superset.
Related Words
synonyms (193)
Words with the same meaning
- absolute monarchy
- aedileship
- animal kingdom
- archbishopric
- archiepiscopacy
- archiepiscopate
- aristocracy
- autarchy
- autocracy
- autonomy
- bishopric
- bureaucracy
- caste
- chain of being
- chairmanship
- chancellery
- chancellorate
- chancellorship
- chiefery
- chiefry
- chieftaincy
- chieftainry
- chieftainship
- class
- class structure
- coalition government
- colonialism
- commonwealth
- condition
- constitutional government
- constitutional monarchy
- consulate
- consulship
- continuity
- deanery
- degree
- democracy
- dictatorship
- dictature
- directorate
- directorship
- domain
- dominion rule
- duarchy
- duumvirate
- dyarchy
- echelon
- emirate
- episcopacy
- establishment
- federal government
- federation
- feudal system
- footing
- garrison state
- gerontocracy
- governorship
- gradation
- headship
- hegemony
- heteronomy
- hierocracy
- higher echelons
- higher-ups
- home rule
- kingdom
- leadership
- limited monarchy
- lordship
- magistracy
- magistrateship
- magistrature
- management
- martial law
- masterdom
- mastership
- mastery
- mayoralty
- mayorship
- meritocracy
- metropolitanate
- metropolitanship
- militarism
- military government
- mineral kingdom
- ministry
- mob rule
- mobocracy
- monarchy
- natural hierarchy
- neocolonialism
- nobility
- ochlocracy
- officialdom
- oligarchy
- order
- pantisocracy
- papacy
- pashadom
- pashalic
- patriarchate
- patriarchy
- pecking order
- place
- police state
- pontificality
- pontificate
- popedom
- popehood
- popeship
- position
- power structure
- precedence
- prefectship
- prefecture
- prelacy
- premiership
- presidency
- presidentship
- prime-ministership
- prime-ministry
- princedom
- princeship
- principality
- proconsulate
- proconsulship
- protectorate
- protectorship
- provostry
- provostship
- pure democracy
- pyramid
- rank
- rate
- rating
- realm
- rectorate
- rectorship
- regency
- regentship
- representative democracy
- representative government
- republic
- ruling class
- ruling classes
- seigniory
- self-determination
- self-government
- seneschalship
- seneschalsy
- sequence
- serial order
- sheikhdom
- sheriffalty
- sheriffcy
- sheriffdom
- shrievalty
- social democracy
- sphere
- stage
- standing
- station
- status
- stratocracy
- subordination
- supervisorship
- suzerainship
- suzerainty
- technocracy
- the Establishment
- the administration
- the authorities
- the ingroup
- the interests
- the people upstairs
- the power elite
- the power structure
- the top
- thearchy
- them
- theocracy
- they
- top brass
- totalitarian government
- totalitarian regime
- triarchy
- tribunate
- triumvirate
- tyranny
- vegetable kingdom
- vizierate
- viziership
- welfare state
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