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Hierarchy

A hierarchy (from Ancient Greek ἱεραρχία (hierarkhía) 'rule of a high priest', from ἱεράρχης (hierárkhēs) 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.

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Visual hierarchy

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Hierarchy

Nodes269
Edges268
Triples174
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007435
Components1

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see also · 26
Hierarchy → AlexandriaPeter Principle, Anarchy, Area, Coptic Orthodox Popes, Different, Ecclesiastical, Feature, Halo, High ProphetsList, INTegrationHierarchical, Laurence, Layer, Management, Markov, Multilevel, Music, Music Specification Language, Open Service Interface DefinitionHierarchy, PeterRing, Philosophical
has application · 19
Hierarchy → A0A, All, Canadian, Dewey Decimal Classification, Families, For, Kulish, Learning, Linnaean, Many Christian, Maslow's, Most, Nature, Sociologists, Some, The, This, Using, While
related to Etymology · 13
Hierarchy → Areopagite, Catholic Church, Dionysius, Eastern Orthodox, English, God, Greek, Oxford English Dictionary, Possibly, Pseudo-Dionysius, Roman Catholic, Since, The Greek
related to Further reading · 13
Hierarchy → Ahl, Allen, Columbia University Press, Denise, Hierarchy Theory, ISBN, Natural, New York, Pumain, Social Sciences, Springer-Verlag, Timothy, Valerie
related to Mathematical representation · 11
Hierarchy → But, For, In, Mathematically, Most, Objects, Operations, The, These, Usually, Within
related to Visual hierarchy · 9
Hierarchy → An, For, In, Nested, The, They, This, Venn, Visual
related to Subsumptive containment hierarchy · 8
Hierarchy → Animalia, For, IS-A, Linnaean, Mammalia, Other, The, Using
is a · 7
Hierarchy → branching hierarchy in which at least one object has two parent objects, classification of object classes from the general to the specific, direct extrapolation of the nested hierarchy concept, hierarchical ordering of nested sets, important concept in a wide variety of fields, ordering of the parts that make up a system, partially ordered set or poset
related to Nested hierarchy · 6
Hierarchy → Each, However, In, Matryoshkas, Russian, The
related to Biology · 5
Hierarchy → Empirically, On, System, The, When

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level hierarchies hierarchical object example superior objects one levels parent system structure also branching often systems direct member dimension concept

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Hierarchyis aimportant concept in a wide variety of fields0.90text
Hierarchyis abranching hierarchy in which at least one object has two parent objects0.90text
Hierarchyis apartially ordered set or poset0.90text
Hierarchyis ahierarchical ordering of nested sets0.90text
Hierarchyis adirect extrapolation of the nested hierarchy concept0.90text
Hierarchyis aclassification of object classes from the general to the specific0.90text
Hierarchyis aordering of the parts that make up a system0.90text
additioninstance ofOperations0.80text
subtractioninstance ofOperations0.80text
multiplicationinstance ofOperations0.80text
division are often performed in a certain sequence or orderinstance ofOperations0.80text
Linnaean taxonomyinstance ofas numerous schemes0.80text

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