Hierarchy

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(LL. hierarchia; Gr. hierarchia). Order or rank of persons or things; each of the nuclei or groupings that make up any ranking system. In information science, h. is understood as the priority given to any element, datum, or instruction of a program, prior to carrying out any computational process.