Hierarchy

A group of people who form an ascending chain of power or authority.

Officers in a government, for example, form an escalating series of ranks or degrees of power, with each rank subject to the authority of the one on the next level above. In a majority of hierarchical arrangements, there are a larger number of people at the bottom than at the top.

Originally, the term was used to mean government by a body of priests. Currently, a hierarchy is used to denote any body of individuals arranged or classified according to capacity, authority, position, or rank.

HIERARCHY, eccl. law. A hierarchy 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.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

Mentioned in

References in periodicals archive

Hierarchical DFT supports some key DFT techniques that help designers further cut DFT and test time, including:

DFT THAT GETS AI CHIPS TO MARKET FASTER

That signaled that, although the bishops might throw some egregiously guilty priests to the lions of the law and the courts, they would fight to protect the hierarchical complex, its assets, its property, and its leadership.

The hierarchical spirit that will not die: Under hierarchical culture, abuse crisis will remain with us

We now describe our proposed adjustment for handling hierarchical classification, where the labels possess some sort of tree structure.

Hierarchical Classification Using Binary Data

The second model was similar to models used by Mantyniemi and Romakkaniemi (2002), which allowed information about U and p to be shared among strata within the year, and is denoted [M.sub.HW] (hierarchical within-year parameter structure).

A multiyear hierarchical Bayesian mark-recapture model incorporating data on recurring salmonid behavior to account for sparse or missing data

Hierarchical clustering provides many motivational advantages for the application of clustering process on raw data efficiently.

K-Linkage: A New Agglomerative Approach for Hierarchical Clustering

Therefore, the process to find the needed hierarchical random graph that best conforms to the observed real network G is to find out the optimal hierarchical random graph.

Research of Hierarchical Random Graph Model based on maximum likelihood estimation

Hypothesis 4: hierarchical culture has an effect on management information systems adoption.

A study of the effect of organizational culture on management information systems adoption; West Azerbaijan's public organizations case study

Hierarchical community mining has two types of top-down splitting strategy and bottom-up agglomerative strategy [7].

Hierarchical community detection algorithm based on local similarity