Found 4 items, similar to Hierarchies.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: hierarchy hirarki
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: hierarchy hirarki, tata susunan, tata tingkat
English → English (WordNet) Definition: hierarchy hierarchy n 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 ]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Hierarchies Hierarchy \Hi"er*arch`y\ (h[imac]"[~e]r*[aum]rk`[y^]), n.; pl. Hierarchies (h[imac]"[~e]r*[aum]rk`[i^]z). [Gr. 'ierarchi`a: cf. F. hi['e]rarchie.] 1. Dominion or authority in sacred things. [1913 Webster] 2. A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers. [1913 Webster] 3. A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests. --Shipley. [1913 Webster] 4. A rank or order of holy beings. [1913 Webster] Standards and gonfalons . . . for distinction serve Of hierarchies, of orders, and degrees. --Milton. 5. (Math., Logic, Computers) Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it; also, the entire set of ordering relations between such objects. The ordering relation between each object and the one above is called a hierarchical relation. Note: Classification schemes, as in biology, usually form hierarchies. [PJC]