- A
hierarchy (from Gr****: ἱεραρχία, hierarkhia, 'rule of a high priest', from hierarkhes, 'president of
sacred rites') is an
arrangement of
items (objects...
- Maslow's
hierarchy of
needs is an idea in
psychology proposed by
American Abraham Maslow in his 1943
paper "A
Theory of
Human Motivation" in the journal...
- A
dominance hierarchy,
formerly and
colloquially called a
pecking order, is a type of
social hierarchy that
arises when
members of
animal social groups...
- The
hierarchy of the
Roman Catholic Church consists of its bishops, priests, and deacons. In the
ecclesiological sense of the term, "
hierarchy" strictly...
- In the
angelology of
different religions, a
hierarchy of
angels is a
ranking system of angels.
Higher ranks have
greater power or
authority over lower...
-
hierarchy (occasionally
referred to as the Chomsky–Schützenberger
hierarchy) is a
containment hierarchy of
classes of
formal grammars. This
hierarchy...
- In
computer architecture, the
memory hierarchy separates computer storage into a
hierarchy based on
response time.
Since response time, complexity, and...
- A
settlement hierarchy is a way of
arranging settlements into a
hierarchy based upon
their po****tion or some
other criteria. The term is used by landscape...
-
Waste hierarchy is a tool used in the
evaluation of
processes that
protect the
environment alongside resource and
energy consumption from most favourable...
- A
hierarchical organization is an
organizational structure where every entity in the organization,
except one, is
subordinate to a
single other entity...
