What is The Definition and Meaning of "Hierarchy"
A hierarchy is an organizational structure in which items are ranked according to levels of importance. Most governments, corporations and organized religions are hierarchical. In a computing context, there are various types of hierarchical systems.
Synonyms:
Rank, ranking, series.
"A hierarchy (from the Greek ἱεραρχία hierarchy, "rule of a high priest", from ἱεράρχης hierarchies, "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 hierarchy is "A body of persons or things ranked in grades, orders, or classes, one above another; specifically in Natural Science and Logic, a system or series of terms of successive rank (as classes, orders, genera, species, etc.), used in classification. " From the OED.
Here are some more definitions and meanings of the word hierarchy:
- A group of persons or things organized into successive ranks or grades with each level subordinate to the one above a career spent moving up through the military hierarchy.
- Categorization or arrangement of a group of people or things into such ranks or grades: classification by hierarchy; discounting the effects of hierarchy.
- A body of persons having authority: "his relations with Hitler and the Nazi hierarchy" (John Kenneth Galbraith).
- A group of animals in which certain members or subgroups dominate or submit to others. One of three main divisions of angels in traditional Christian angelology.
- Middle English hierarchy, from Old French, from Medieval Latin hierarchy, from Greek hierarkhiā, The rule of a high priest, from hierarkhēs, the high priest.
