monohierarchical structure
monohierarchical structure
hierarchical arrangement of concepts, in a thesaurus or classification scheme, in which each concept can have only one broader concept
Compare with polyhierarchical
structure. In a monohierarchical structure, each
concept can occur at only one place in the hierarchy and
other broader term relationships have to be shown as
related term relationships.
e.g. in a monohierarchical structure, the concept pianos cannot be listed as a narrower term of both keyboard instruments and stringed instruments; a choice has to be made of one of these concepts to determine its placing.
Related terms
- RT⇆ hierarchical display
- RT⇆ polyhierachical structure
- RT⇆ taxonomy
