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Heterarchy — Het er*arch y, n. [Hetero + archy.] The government of an alien. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Heterarchy — A heterarchy is a system of organization replete with overlap, multiplicity, mixed ascendancy, and/or divergent but coexistent patterns of relation. Definitions of the term vary among the disciplines: in social and information sciences,… … Wikipedia
heterarchy — noun /ˈhɛtəɹɑːkɪ/ a) The rule of an alien; rule from without; government by an extraterritorial power.<ref name= OED /> Despite installing puppet governments in the marches, the subjects of the empire’s conquered territories were still very … Wiktionary
HETERARCHY — A technical term employed to define a complex political organization that was not simply hierarchical in a pyramidal manner. Etruscan politics may have had much of this quality since it was composed of the dynamic rivalry of multiple descent… … Historical Dictionary of the Etruscans
heterarchy — A government of strangers of foreigners … Grandiloquent dictionary
Dense heterarchy — Hierarchical organization in social insect colonies can be thought of as a dense heterarchy in which the higher levels affect the lower levels and lower levels eventually influence the higher levels. Individual ants within the colony network are… … Wikipedia
Homoarchy — Definition Homoarchy is “the relation of elements to one another when they are rigidly ranked one way only, and thus possess no (or not more than very limited) potential for being unranked or ranked in another or a number of different ways at… … Wikipedia
Triarchy — refers to the three fundamental ways of getting things done in organizations: hierarchy, heterarchy and responsible autonomy.All organizations use a mixture of these three ways, but the proportions can differ widely. At present, hierarchy is… … Wikipedia
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WOMAN — This article is arranged according to the following outline: the historical perspective biblical period marriage and children women in household life economic roles educational and managerial roles religious roles women outside the household… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
