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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hierarchy \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
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}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
hierarchy
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}.
(1994-10-11)
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