cordance with a principle
(as of importance, perfection, or priority); (4) The stratification so
achieved; <U>specifically</U>, a table of statistical correlations having
a constant proportional relationship and graded from high to low; (5) A
body of persons or things ranked in grades, orders, or classes, one above
another; a system or series of terms of successive rank, used in classification
(as in biology).

<P>Additionally, of the adjective "hierarchical" it says: (6) Having the
power to control; influe