A hierarch is a very high-ranking bishop; see also primate (religion) and metropolitan bishop. The etymologically related word hierarchy originally meant "rule by priests", but see also hierarchy. Bishop (disambiguation). ... For the use of the word primate in biology, see primate (biology). ... In hierarchical Christian churches, the rank of metropolitan bishop, whose incumbent is usually called simply a metropolitan, apertains to the bishop of a metropolis; that is, the chief city of an old Roman province, ecclesiastical province, or regional capital. ... A hierarchy (in Greek hieros = sacred, arkho = rule) is a system of ranking and organizing things. ...
Since hierarchical churches such as the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches had tables of organization that were "hierarchical" in the modern sense of the word, the term came to refer to similar organizational methods in more general settings.
Feminists may not take issue with inanimate objects being organized in a hierarchical fashion, but rather with the specific asymmetrical organization of unequal value and power between men and women and, usually, other social hierarchies such as in racism and anti-gay bias.
The pitches and form of tonalmusic are organizedhierarchically, all pitches deriving their importance from their relationship to a tonickey, and secondary themes in other keys are brought back to the tonic in a recapitulation of the primary theme.
A hierarchical database is a kind of database management system that links records together in a tree data structure such that each record type has only one owner (e.g., an order is owned by only one customer).
Hierarchicalstructures were widely used in the first mainframe database management systems.
Hierarchical relationships between different types of data can make it very easy to answer some questions, but very difficult to answer others.
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