Natural order could refer to:
Science
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Natural order (philosophy)
In philosophy, the natural order is the moral source from which natural law seeks to derive its authority. Natural order encompasses the natural relations of beings to one another in the absence of law, which natural law attempts to reinforce ...
, concept in philosophy
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Natural order hypothesis, hypotheses of second-language acquisition
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Ordo naturalis
In botany, the phrase ''ordo naturalis'', 'natural order', was once used for what today is a family. Its origins lie with Carl Linnaeus who used the phrase when he referred to natural groups of plants in his lesser-known work, particularly ''Philo ...
'', Latin for "natural order" once used to describe plant families
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enumeration
An enumeration is a complete, ordered listing of all the items in a collection. The term is commonly used in mathematics and computer science to refer to a listing of all of the elements of a set. The precise requirements for an enumeration (fo ...
, a natural ordering in which a set of items might be enumerated
* The natural order defined for the
monus
In mathematics, monus is an operator on certain commutative monoids that are not groups. A commutative monoid on which a monus operator is defined is called a commutative monoid with monus, or CMM. The monus operator may be denoted with the &minus ...
operation, on
monoids
In abstract algebra, a branch of mathematics, a monoid is a set equipped with an associative binary operation and an identity element. For example, the nonnegative integers with addition form a monoid, the identity element being 0.
Monoids ...
and
semirings
Music
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''Natural Order'' (album), 1990 album by Hellbastard
Card games
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Natural order (cards)
The following is a glossary of terms used in card games. Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to Bridge, Hearts, Poker or Rummy) ...
refers to the standard ranking of cards within a suit e.g. from Ace (high) to Deuce (low) or Deuce (high) to Seven (low).
See also
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Natural sort order
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