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Hierarchy - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Hierarchy : (noun)
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]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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HIERARCHY, eccl. law. AHierarchy : signified, originally, power of the
priest; for in the beginning of societies, the priests were entrusted with
all the power but, among the priests themselves, there were different
degrees of power and authority, at the summit of which was the sovereign
pontiff, and this was called the hierarchy. Now it signifies, not so much
the power of the priests as the border of power.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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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.
(1994-10-11)
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Example Usage of Hierarchy |
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claudebonnaud: Superb Wikipedia article on the 'Angelic Hierarchy' http://bit.ly/8LGEE see also the 'Hierarchy of Devils' link at the bottom of the page. |
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lodog: Tony Hsieh discusses Maslow's Hierarchy of needs as it relates to corporate culture: http://bit.ly/v1PUc #leweb |
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abarrera: Another framework: Maslow Hierarchy #zappos #leweb |
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