series vs hierarchy

hierarchy vs series

series and hierarchy both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
series	Yes	No	No	No
hierarchy	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hierarchy is a hyponym of series; that is, hierarchy is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than series:

series: similar things placed in order or happening one after another
hierarchy: a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system

Other hyponyms of series include Stations, Stations of the Cross, chain, concatenation, cordon, course, line, cycle, electrochemical series, electromotive force series, electromotive series, nexus, patterned advance, progression, blizzard, rash, sequence, string, train, succession, wave train, helium group, actinide series, lanthanide series.

series (noun)	hierarchy (noun)
(mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions	a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system
a periodical that appears at scheduled times	the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
a serialized set of programs
(sports) several contests played successively by the same teams
similar things placed in order or happening one after another
a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection
(electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other

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