hierarchy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hierarchy	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for hierarchy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hierarchy n a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values" the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body Synonym(s): hierarchy, power structure, pecking order
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hierarchy \Hi"er*arch`y\, n.; pl. {Hierarchies}. [Gr. [?]: cf. F. hi[82]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 The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [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)