The division among a group of animals the establishes who is the leader and who are the followers.

That group of spiritual beings on the inner planes of the solar system who are the intelligent forces of nature, and who control the evolutionary processes. They are themselves divided into twelve Hierarchies. Within our planetary scheme, the earth scheme, there is a reflection of this Hierarchy which is called by the occultist the Occult Hierarchy. This Hierarchy is formed of chohans, adepts, and initiates working through their disciples, and, by this means, in the world.

A collection of newsgroups gathered together by broad topical or structural similarity, i.e. "sci" groups related to science, and "alt" groups which are managed and distributed differently from other hierarchies.

A system by which objects can be arranged in a graded order, typically represented by a series of ordered groupings such as those used for plant and animal classifications (e.g. classes, orders, families).

A grouping of newsgroups which relate to a similar topic.

A symbolic structure, created by language use, that gives one person, place, or thing a higher standing than others in its group.

a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values"

a grouping of things into levels

A method of organizing people and groups of people in which some people or groups of people have authority over the actions of other people or groups of people

The Hierarchy which overshadows the Group of World Servers is a society of illumined sons of men who have entered the realization of planetary group life. They are presided over by the Christ and have their center on the plane of buddhi.

The categories of newsgroups. The main categories are: comp. (computer topics), misc. (miscellaneous), news. (newsgroup-related stuff), rec. (recreation), sci. (science), soc. (society), talk. (discussion), and alt. (alternative). Hierarchies are arranged so they get more specific as you work your way down. For example: rec.* (recreation groups -- the "*" means "include everything under this") rec.collecting.* (recreation groups about collecting) rec.collecting.sport.* (recreation groups about sports collecting) rec.collecting.sport.football (a recreation group about sports collecting, specifically football) Note that rec.collecting.sport.* would also include sports collecting groups about baseball, hockey, etc. There are also special, regional, and local hierarchies that may not be available to all people.

a series of ordered groupings moving from broader general categories to narrow specific ones. In a web directory you may only see one level of the hierarchy at a time. When you select a topic you are then shown the options at the next level. See also Taxonomy; Thesaurus.

an ordering of groups in which larger groups encompass sets of smaller groups.

A hierarchy is a series of classes or groups in which each class falls into a subgroup of a larger group, which in turn forms part of an even larger group. A hierarchy begins with a word or group of words expressive of a broad subject domain. This domain is further subdivided again and again into progressively more specific classes or categories according to specific criteria. The guiding principle of a hierarchy is that each category is contained within the one above.