hierarchy (redirected from Heirarchical)

hierarchy: see ministry and orders, holy.

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hierarchy

A structure that has a predetermined ordering from high to low. For example, all files and folders on the hard disk are organized in a hierarchy (see Win Folder organization).

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hierarchy

1. Religion a body of persons in holy orders organized into graded ranks

2. Taxonomy a series of ordered groupings within a system, such as the arrangement of plants and animals into classes, orders, families, etc.

3. Linguistics Maths a formal structure, usually represented by a diagram of connected nodes, with a single uppermost element

4. government by an organized priesthood

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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.