Look up: hierarchy

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   hierarchy
   A series in which each element is categorized into successive ranks or grades with each level subordinate to the one above.
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   Hierarchy
   The social structure of a wolf pack, based on positions of dominance and subordinance held by the pack members.
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   Hierarchy
   The levels of management within a business organisation, from the lowest to the highest.
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   Hierarchy
   A structural relationship in which each unit consists of two or more sub-units, the latter being similarly sub-divided.
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   Hierarchy
   an order of power between individuals. A ranking of most dominant to least dominant.
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   hierarchy
   [n] - a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system 2. [n] - the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
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   Hierarchy
   In the Vutrax context, an organisation of schematic drawings where separate drawings reference one another. Typically a block diagram overview references schematic detail for its various subsections, and so on as required
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   Hierarchy
   The relationship of the sub-objects within a model or a scene to one another. Sub-objects may exist as parents, children or independents. A parent object controls the motion of all child objects linked to it, although the motion of a child object does not affect that of the parent.
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   Hierarchy
   An organization of things or ideas where the more important ideas are given a ranking based upon their importance.
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    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. ...
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    hierarchy
    1)the order in which operations within a formula, statement, or program are executed; 2)rank or order Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • the network between concepts constituted by hierarchical relations Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • if,in a matrix of intercorrelations of a set of variates,the row and colu...
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    Hierarchy
    Hi'er·arch`y (-ȳ) noun ; plural Hierarchies (-ĭz). [ Greek 'ierarchi`a : confer French 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 ...
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    hierarchy
    1. Any system of persons or things ranked one above the other. ... 2. In psychology and psychiatry, an organization of habits or concepts in which simpler components are combined to form increasingly complex integrations. ... Origin: G. Hierarchia, rule or power of the high priest ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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    hierarchy
    noun a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; `put honesty first in her hierarchy of values`
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    hierarchy
    pecking order noun the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
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    Hierarchy
    A `hierarchy` (in Greek: `, derived from ` ` `hieros`, 'sacred', and ` ` `arkho`, 'rule') is a system of ranking and organizing things or people, where each element of the system (except for the top element) is a subordinate to a single other element. The first use of the word `hierarchy` cited by the Oxford English Dictionary was in 1880, when it was used in reference to the three orders of three angels as depicted by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areop...
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    Hierarchy
    • (n.) A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers. • (n.) A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests. • (n.) Dominion or authority in sacred things. &b...
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    hierarchy
    (from the article `mental disorder`) ...desensitization, the patient is first taught how to practice muscular relaxation. The patient then reviews the situations that are feared and ...
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    hierarchy
    hierarchy 1. Rule or dominion in holy things; priestly rule or government; a system of ecclesiastical rule. 2. The collective body of ecclesiastical rulers; an organized body of priests or clergy in successive orders or grades. 3. A body of persons or things ranked in grades, orders, or classes, one above another; specifically, in natural science and logic, ...
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    Hierarchy
    - an order of power between individuals. A ranking of most dominant to least dominant.
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    Hierarchy
    A form of classification in which involves ranking a group of objects or concepts.
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    hierarchy
    hierarchy: see ministry and orders, holy.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0