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Hierarchies 音标拼音: [h'ɑɪr ,ɑrkiz] 分层,分类 分层,分类 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]
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