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hierarchy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | pecking order, power structure |
| Type of | organization, organisation |
hierarchy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | series |
| Has types | celestial hierarchy, data hierarchy, taxonomy |
| Derivation | hierarchical |
put honesty first in her hierarchy of values.
Examples of hierarchy
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The little-known agency occupies a unique niche in California's water hierarchy.
From the sacbee.com
Many Catholics, disgusted with their hierarchy, would leave Rome in a heartbeat.
From the guardian.co.uk
After all, a coup can come from many different levels in the military hierarchy.
From the guardian.co.uk
Wills had become dismayed by just that kind of behavior by the Church hierarchy.
From the theatlantic.com
He was one of the main leaders of the Swat Taliban, at the top of the hierarchy.
From the latimes.com
In return, they have received a spot on the subtly graded hierarchy of sponsors.
From the businessweek.com
There is also a rather sniffy hierarchy as to who gets tarred with this feather.
From the independent.co.uk
This hierarchy of approvals remained in place throughout the containment effort.
From the scienceblogs.com
How else, he asks, to explain the curious hierarchy of their current priorities.
From the economist.com
- 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
- (hierarchical) classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers; "it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art"; "in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first"
- A hierarchy (from the Greek u1F31u03B5u03C1u03B1u03C1u03C7u03AFu03B1 hierarchia, "rule of a high priest", from u1F31u03B5u03C1u03ACu03C1u03C7u03B7u03C2 hierarkhes, "leader of sacred rites") is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) in which the items are represented as being "above," "below," or "at the same level as" one another.
- A hierarchical organization is an organizational structure where every entity in the organization, except one, is subordinate to a single other entity. This arrangement is a form of a hierarchy. ...
- In mathematics, a hierarchy is a preorder, i.e. an ordered set. The term is used to stress a natural hierarchical relation among the elements. In particular, it is the preferred terminology for posets whose elements are classes of objects of increasing complexity. ...
- In object-oriented programming (OOP), Inheritance is a way to compartmentalize and reuse code by creating collections of attributes and behaviors called objects which can be based on previously created objects. ...
- A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks; Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it
- (hierarchic) proportion Use of unnatural proportion to show the relative importance of figures.
