Order

Order, ORDER or Orders most often refers to:

A socio-political or established or existing order, e.g. World order, Ancien Regime, Pax Britannica Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of different ways Hierarchy, an arrangement of items that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another An action or inaction that must be obeyed, mandated by someone in authority

Order, ORDER or Orders may also refer to:

People Orders (surname)

Arts, entertainment, and media Order (film), a 2005 Russian film Order (album), 2009, by Maroon "Order", a 2016 song from Brand New Maid by Band-Maid Orders (1974 film), by Michel Brault "Orders" (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)

Business Order (business), a buyer's intention to obtain goods and services from a seller Blanket order, a purchase order to allow multiple delivery dates over a period of time Money order or postal order, a financial instrument usually intended for sending money through the mail Purchase order, a document issued by a buyer to a seller, indicating types, quantities, and agreed prices Sales order, an order issued by a business or trader to a customer

Exclusive organisations Order (distinction), a visible honour in society Dynastic order of a presently or formerly sovereign royal house National order of a sovereign state Order of merit of a state or other entity Order of precedence, a sequential hierarchy of the nominal importance of items Fraternal order Military order (religious society), established in the era of the Crusades Order of chivalry, established since the Middle Ages

Legal and political terminology Court order, made by a judge, e.g., a restraining order Compulsory purchase order, allowing certain public bodies to acquire land or property without the consent of the owner Executive order (disambiguation) Law and order (politics), approach focusing on harsher enforcement and penalties as ways to reduce crime Public-order crime, type of crime that runs contrary to social order Organized crime, groupings of highly centralized criminal enterprises Social order, set or system of linked social structures, institutions, relations, customs, values and practices Statutory instrument, type of delegated legislation Professional order, an organization which comprises all the members of the same profession

Military Military order (disambiguation) Military order (instruction), binding instruction given by a senior rank to a junior rank in a military context General order, a published directive from a commander Standing order (disambiguation) An order of chivalry, if membership is conferred on military personnel as a result of valorous, exemplary or distinguished service Tactical formation, an arrangement or deployment of moving military forces

Philosophy Great order of being, a mediaeval Christian conceptualisation of the physical world Order (logic), a property used to characterize logical systems Natural order (philosophy), the moral source from which natural law seeks to derive its authority

Religion Orange Order, Protestant fraternal organization in Northern Ireland, includes the Canadian Orange Order, United States Orange Order]], African Orange Order and Scottish Orange Order Ecclesiastical decoration, order or a decoration conferred by a head of a church Holy orders, the rite or sacrament in which clergy are ordained Monastic order, a religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual work Order of Mass, an outline of a Mass celebration Religious order, a community or organization set apart from the general society for devotion to a religious practice Religious order (Catholic), a religious order in the context of the Roman Catholic Church Canon regular, or canonical order, a class of religious orders for priests in the Catholic Church

Science and technology Biology and healthcare Order (taxonomy), a taxonomic classification of organisms by rank Order, in phytosociology, an ecological grouping of plants, between alliance and class Ordo naturalis (natural order), an outdated rank in biology, equivalent to the modern rank of family Order, in medicine, refers to a formal request made by authorized health practitioners to carry out a specific clinical action concerning diagnosis or treatment

Computing Order of computation, the computational complexity in the analysis of algorithms Big O notation, notation describing limiting behavior Z-order, which graphics cover up others on computer screens

Mathematics

Order (journal), an academic journal on order theory Order, an arrangement of items in sequence Order, the result of enumeration of a set of items Order, a mathematical structure modeling sequenced items, dealt with in order theory Order of hierarchical complexity, quantified by the model of hierarchical complexity, the ordinal complexity of tasks that are addressed Ordered set, an ordered structure, in mathematics Order (ring theory), concept in algebraic number theory Ordinate in mathematics, the y element of an ordered pair (x, y) Partially ordered set Complete partial order Permutation, the act of arranging all the members of a set into some sequence or order Ranking Stochastic ordering of random variables or probability distributions

Physics Implicate and explicate order, ontological concepts for quantum theory Order and disorder (physics), measured by an order parameter or more generally by entropy Order, optics, the category number of lighthouse Fresnel lenses, defining size and focal length Topological order in quantum mechanics, an organized quantum state

Signal processing First-order hold, a mathematical model of the practical reconstruction of sampled signals Polynomial order, of a filter transfer function

Other uses in science and technology ORDER (spacecraft), a space debris removal transport satellite Order (mouldings), each of a series of recessed arches and supports around a doorway or similar feature Classical order, architectonic orders in architecture Collation, the ordering of information Alphabetical order, the ordering of letters Order of reaction, a concept of chemical kinetics Spontaneous order, the natural emergence of structure in systems Stream order, used to define river networks based on a hierarchy of tributaries

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