- 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"
- (hierarchically) in a hierarchical manner; "hierarchically organized"
- (hierarchy) a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values"
- (hierarchy) the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
- (Hierarchy (church)) 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. ...
- (Hierarchy (mathematics)) 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. ...
- (Hierarchy (object-oriented programming)) 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. ...
- Pertaining to a hierarchy; Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastic or priestly order; Classified or arranged according to various criteria into successive ranks or grades
- (hierarchy) 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
- (Hierarchies) (191) the leaders or chiefs of religious groups; high priests. Milton uses the term to represent all the angels who make up the Heavenly Host.
- (Hierarchies) Example: The table E (for EMPLOYEE) nr name mgr 1 Gretchen null 2 Bob 1 5 Anne 2 6 John 2 3 Hulda 1 4 Hjalmar 1 7 Usama 4 Going up in the hierarchy one level: What's the name of John's boss?
- (Hierarchies) there are many perspectives and levels – organizational, technological and solution domain
- (hierarchy) Trees (presentation, calculation, and so forth) used to express and navigate relationships.
- (Hierarchy) The universal chain of individualized God-free beings fulfilling the attributes and aspects of God’s infinite Selfhood. ...
- (hierarchy) A classification of relationships in which each item except the top one is a specialized form of the item above it. Each item can have one or more items below it in the hierarchy.
- (Hierarchy) The higher clergy or College of bishops who are assigned to rule over spiritual matters of the church.
- (hierarchy) A group of beings arranged in order of rank or class; as a hierarchy of God, Gods and devas.
- (hierarchy) In Catholic usage, the term is used most commonly to refer collectively to the bishops of the world or a particular region. In technical uses, however, it may refer to all those who are ordained: deacons and priests as well as bishops. ...
- (Hierarchy) Objects can be linked to each other in hierarchical groups. The Parent Object in such groups passes its transformations through to the Child Objects.
- (hierarchy) The arrangement of a classification scheme from general to specific.
- (hierarchy) A diagram that shows how various figures or ideas are related, often with a down ward direction that moves from more general to more specific. Below you will see the seven types of quadrilaterals arranged in a hierarchy. A hierarchy is similar to a flowchart.
- (Hierarchy) The organization of a set of elements into subsets according to relations of dominance and subordination. Each element of a subset is subordinate to the subset as a whole which itself is subordinate to the superset of which it is an element, and so on. ...
- A hierarchy defines the navigating path for drilling up and drilling down. All attributes in a hierarchy belong to the same dimension.
- (Hierarchy) a social structure in which individuals or classes of people are ranked so that some people occupy higher levels of importance than others
- Hierarchy is created from attributes that are related. The hierarchy is a series of parent-child relationships, typically where a parent member represents the consolidation of the members which are its children. Parent members can be further aggregated as the children of another parent.E.g. ...