jerarquía

n. hierarchy, system in which persons or things are arranged one above the other according to rank

= hierarchy, ladder, tree, pecking order, ranking order, ranking.
Ex: Figure 12.1 shows a small hierarchy of subjects, or a group of ranked subjects which incorporates some statement of the relationships between those subjects.
Ex: Special attention should be given to Figure 2, which proposes two lattices (or ladders) for career movement in libraries.
Ex: 'Tree' will show related terms linked by the tree structure; 'explode' will automatically expand the search term to include those terms in the same tree, using OR logic.
Ex: Libraries have a peculiar pecking order -- public, academic, special.
Ex: Library applications may require special arrangements in order to overcome certain difficulties posed by a pre-determined ranking order.
Ex: Those documents with sufficiently high rankings will be deemed relevant and eventually retrieved.
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* jerarquía "es un tipo de" = is-a hierarchy.
* jerarquía de poder = scalar chain.
* jerarquía social = social hierarchy.