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hierarchy Definition

hi·er·ar·chy (ər är′kē)

noun pl. -·chies

  1. a system of church government by priests or other clergy in graded ranks
  2. the group of officials, esp. the highest officials, in such a system
  3. a group of persons or things arranged in order of rank, grade, class, etc.

Etymology: altered (modeled on Gr) < ME ierarchie < OFr jerarchie < ML(Ec) hierarchia < LGr(Ec), power or rule of a hierarch < Gr hierarchēs: see hierarch

hierarchy Synonyms

hierarchy

n.

ministry, regime, theocracy, chain of command, pecking order; see also authority 3, bureaucracy 1, government 1, 2.

hierarchy Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • widget: WIDGETS In order to specify resources, it is useful to know the hierarchy of the widgets which compose xclock.
  • heading: The logical structure of a document is defined visually, typically through a hierarchy of headings ( headings of different sizes or weights ).

Converse of object

  • flatten: But the frustration of managers at the slowing of their career progress since hierarchies flattened is unlikely to result in those levels being reinstated.
  • upset: That certain way includes among other things; not upsetting the current hierarchy of power.
  • nest: Collaborative Book The book feature organizes content into a nested hierarchy.
  • imply: There is no hierarchy implied by the title, the President's distinctive role will only be to represent the Society if required.
  • establish: Newly mixed pigs fight to establish a hierarchy which is based on weight - the heaviest being more dominant.

Preposition: in

  • formulation: Is there in practice a hierarchy in the formulation of different types of environmental plans?

Adjective modifier

  • taxonomic: Browsing can be done by taxonomic hierarchy, concepts hierarchy, by curriculum, or by biology course.
  • rigid: The same remarks apply to a society that is caste-based, or has any other rigid hierarchy to social status.
  • Catholic: Remember, Elgar's parish church had been built only shortly after the early 19th century restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in England.
  • ecclesiastical: The government surveyed rural monasteries and schools, and reconstituted the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
  • three-level: Clusters Areas are grouped into a three-level hierarchy of clusters, within which areas share similar combinations of characteristics.
  • object-based: Suppose vendor A creates an object-based hierarchy that includes a useful set of containers including one you want to use called Holder.

Noun used with modifier

  • widget: From within X-Designer, you can turn a widget hierarchy into a definition to be used later in other designs.
  • inheritance: These concepts are discussed in Chapter 4. Furthermore, several ways to represent inheritance hierarchies are investigated in section 4.3.
  • dominance: On a slightly different theme: Is there a dominance hierarchy among the species on your feeder?
  • caste: But in practice a local caste hierarchy may correspond only very loosely with the ideal.
  • waste: The ' waste hierarchy ' shown below places incineration second to last.
  • directory: These files are generated into several subdirectories, according to LEIF's standard project directory hierarchy.
hierarchy Quotes

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence; the cream rises until it sours.

—Peter, LaurenceJ

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