 ##  [Analytic Hierarchy Process](/index.php/analytic-hierarchy-process) 

  ##  [Analytic Hierarchy Process](https://engineering.quantumdictionary.io/analytic-hierarchy-process-0) 

  
 [![Engineering & Applied Technologies Dictionary](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2026-01/Engineering%20%26%20Applied%20Technologies.png.webp?itok=_IKO7_-n)](/index.php/topic-specific-dictionaries/engineering-applied-technologies)


**Engineering &amp; Applied Technologies Dictionary**

 
Definition

A structured multi-criteria decision method that decomposes a decision into a hierarchy of goals, criteria and alternatives, elicits pairwise comparisons of elements at each level to derive relative priorities, and synthesizes those priorities into an overall ranking—commonly using ratio-scale weights derived from pairwise comparison matrices.