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hierarchy

noun
/ˈhaɪ.ə.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/

Etymology

From Middle English ierarchie, jerarchie, from Old French ierarchie, jerarchie, from Late Latin ierarchia, from Latin hierarchia, from Ancient Greek ἱεραρχία (hierarkhía, “rule of a high priest”), from ἱεράρχης (hierárkhēs, “high priest”), from ἱερός (hierós, “holy”) + ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule”), equivalent to hiero- + -archy. The H was re-added c. 1500 due to influence from Classical Latin.

  1. derived from ἱεραρχία
  2. derived from hierarchia
  3. derived from ierarchia
  4. derived from ierarchie
  5. inherited from ierarchie

Definitions

  1. A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.

    • Gay men and bisexuals were blamed for the [AIDS] epidemic for much the same reason that the church hierarchy in the Middle Ages accused Jewish people of creating bubonic plague by "poisoning the wells."

  2. A social, religious, economic or political system or organization in which people or…

    A social, religious, economic or political system or organization in which people or groups of people are ranked with some superior to others based on their status, authority or some other trait.

    • Social defeat arises in strict social hierarchies in which the few dominate the many. Overcrowding exacerbates the many ills of social defeat within these social hierarchies based on dominance.

  3. Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a…

    Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.

    • ... the surviving portions provide enough detail to outline its principal features: the hierarchy of beings to whom his liturgy was to be addressed (we previously considered Plethon's hierarchy of gods in our examination of his Summary[…]

The neighborhood

Derived

antihierarchy, arithmetical hierarchy, arithmetic hierarchy, Chomsky hierarchy, command hierarchy, hierarchial, hierarchism, hierarchy of effects, Kleene hierarchy, Kleene-Mostowski hierarchy, Lévy hierarchy, phonological hierarchy, polyhierarchy, subhierarchy, superhierarchy, time hierarchy theorem

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at hierarchy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at hierarchy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at hierarchy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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