Definition of Hierarchy

(n.)
Dominion or authority in sacred things.
  

(n.)
A rank or order of holy beings.
  

(n.)
A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests.
  

(n.)
A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.
  

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hierarchy
\hi"er*arch`y\ (?), n.; pl. hierarchies (#). [gr. &?;: cf. f. hiérarchie.]
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.
4. a rank or order of holy beings. standards and gonfalons for distinction serve of hierarchies, of orders, and degrees.
hierarchy
n
1. a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system: "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values"
2. the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body [syn: power structure, pecking order ]

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 class hierarchy 
 data hierarchy 

Uchelsantaeth = n. a hierarchy

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Noun
1. a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values"
(hypernym) series
(hyponym) celestial hierarchy
(part-holonym) system, scheme
2. the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
(synonym) power structure, pecking order
(hypernym) organization, organisation
(part-holonym) administration, governance, governing body, establishment, brass, organization, organisation

(l) A form of organization resembling a pyramid. Each level is subordinate to the one above it. See heterarchy. (Umpleby ) (2) An organization whose components are arranged in levels from a top level down to a bottom level. (Arbib) (3) A partially-ordered structure of entities in which every entity but one is successor to at least one other entity; and every entity except the basic entities is a predecessor to at least one other entity. (Rogers) (4) Narrowly, a group arranged in order of rank or class; we interpret it to denote a rank arrangement in which the nature of function at each higher level becomes more broadly embracing than at the lower level. (Iberall)

A classification of relationships in which each item except the top one (known as the root) is a specialized form of the item above it. Each item can have one or more items below it in the hierarchy. In the Java class hierarchy, the root is the Object class.

The categories of newsgroups. The main categories are:
soc. (society)
misc. (miscellaneous
sci. (science)

A logical tree structure that organizes the members of a dimension such that each member has one parent member and zero or more child members.

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