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3 definitions found 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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