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Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: *
Categorization Categorization is the ability and activity of recognizing shared features or similarities between the elements of the experience of the world (such as objects, events, or ideas), organizing and classifying experience by associating them to ...
, 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 In the fields of sociology and political science, authority is the legitimate power of a person or group over other people. In a civil state, ''authority'' is practiced in ways such a judicial branch or an executive branch of government.''The Ne ...


People

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Orders (surname) Orders is a surname. Etymology The etymology of 'Orders' is unclear, although there are records extant dating the surname in its current spelling back to the 17th century in the Warminster region of Wiltshire and the 16th century in Cambridgeshire ...


Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Order'' (album), a 2009 album by Maroon * "Order", a 2016 song from ''
Brand New Maid ''Brand New Maid'' is the third studio album by Japanese all-female rock band Band-Maid. It was released on May 18, 2016, and was their first album to be released internationally. Music videos were made for "The Non-Fiction Days," "Before Yesterda ...
'' by Band-Maid * ''Orders'' (1974 film), a 1974 film by Michel Brault * ''Orders'', a 2010 film by Brian Christopher * ''Orders'', a 2017 film by Eric Marsh and Andrew Stasiulis * ''Jed & Order'', a 2022 film by Jedman


Business

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Blanket order A blanket order, blanket purchase agreement or call-off order is a purchase order which a customer places with its supplier to allow multiple delivery dates over a period of time, often negotiated to take advantage of predetermined pricing. It is ...
, purchase order to allow multiple delivery dates over a period of time *
Money order A money order is a directive to pay a pre-specified amount of money from prepaid funds, making it a more trusted method of payment than a cheque. History The money order system was established by a private firm in Great Britain in 1792 and was ...
or postal order, a financial instrument usually intended for sending money through the mail * Purchase order, document issued by a buyer to a seller, indicating types, quantities, and agreed prices *
Sales order {{unref, date=December 2018 The sales order, sometimes abbreviated as SO, is an order issued by a business or sole trader to a customer. A sales order may be for products and/or services. Given the wide variety of businesses, this means that the o ...
, order issued by a business or trader to a customer * Jedman, order issued by Jedman CEO of Orders at Stellantis.


Culture

* Order (distinction), a visible honour in society **
Dynastic order A dynastic order, monarchical order, or house order is an order under royal patronage. Such an order is bestowed by, as a legitimate , a sovereign or the head of a once-sovereign ruling family. These are often considered part of the cultural p ...
of a presently or formerly sovereign royal house **
Order of merit The Order of Merit (french: link=no, Ordre du Mérite) is an order of merit for the Commonwealth realms, recognising distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or for the promotion of culture. Established in 1902 by K ...
of a state or other entity ** Order of precedence, a sequential hierarchy of the nominal importance of items *
Fraternal order A fraternal order is a fraternity organised as an order, with traits alluding to religious, chivalric or pseudo-chivalric orders, guilds, or secret societies. Contemporary fraternal orders typically have secular purposes, including social, cult ...
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Military order (religious society) A military order ( la, militaris ordo) is a Christian religious society of knights. The original military orders were the Knights Templar, the Knights Hospitaller, the Order of Saint James, the Order of Calatrava, and the Teutonic Knights. Th ...
, established in the era of the Crusades * Order of chivalry, established since the Middle Ages


Law and society

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Court order A court order is an official proclamation by a judge (or panel of judges) that defines the legal relationships between the parties to a hearing, a trial, an appeal or other court proceedings. Such ruling requires or authorizes the carrying out of ...
, made by a judge, e.g., a restraining order * Executive order (disambiguation) *
Law and order (politics) In modern politics, law and order is the approach focusing on harsher enforcement and penalties as ways to reduce crime. Penalties for perpetrators of disorder may include longer terms of imprisonment, mandatory sentencing, three-strikes laws ...
, 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 In many countries, a statutory instrument is a form of delegated legislation. United Kingdom Statutory instruments are the principal form of delegated or secondary legislation in the United Kingdom. National government Statutory instrumen ...
, type of delegated legislation *
Professional order A professional order is an organization which, in a given territory, comprises all the members of the same profession, a profession which can generally be exercised in a liberal manner and which ensures a form of regulation of the profession in ques ...
, 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) Standing order or standing orders may refer to: * Standing order (banking) (or ''banker's order''), instruction to a bank to pay a set amount at regular intervals from one account to another * Permanent rules of order governing parliamentary proced ...
* Tactical formation, an arrangement or deployment of moving military forces


Philosophy

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Order (logic) mathematics and logic, a higher-order logic is a form of predicate logic that is distinguished from first-order logic by additional quantifiers and, sometimes, stronger semantics. Higher-order logics with their standard semantics are more expres ...
, a property used to characterize logical systems *
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. ...
, the moral source from which natural law seeks to derive its authority


Religion

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Ecclesiastical decoration An ecclesiastical decoration is an order or a decoration conferred by a head of a church. Catholic ecclesiastical decorations Orders, decorations, and medals of the Holy See Other Catholic distinctions Local ecclesiastical distinctions * ...
, 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 Order of Mass is an outline of a Mass celebration, describing how and in what order liturgical texts and rituals are employed to constitute a Mass. The expression Order of Mass is particularly tied to the Roman Rite where the sections under that ...
, 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 Canons regular are priests who live in community under a rule ( and canon in greek) and are generally organised into religious orders, differing from both secular canons and other forms of religious life, such as clerics regular, designated by a ...
, or canonical order, a class of religious orders for priests in the Catholic Church


Science and technology


Biology and healthcare

* Order (biology), a classification of organisms by rank ** Order, in phytosociology, an ecological grouping of plants, between alliance and class ** ''
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 '' Ph ...
'' (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 In computer science, the analysis of algorithms is the process of finding the computational complexity of algorithms—the amount of time, storage, or other resources needed to execute them. Usually, this involves determining a function that ...
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Big O notation Big ''O'' notation is a mathematical notation that describes the limiting behavior of a function when the argument tends towards a particular value or infinity. Big O is a member of a family of notations invented by Paul Bachmann, Edmund Land ...
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Z-order Z-order is an ordering of overlapping two-dimensional objects, such as windows in a stacking window manager, shapes in a vector graphics editor, or objects in a 3D application.Foley, James, Andries van Dam, Steven Feiner, and John Hughes. "Comput ...
, which graphics cover up others on computer screens


Mathematics

* ''Order'' (journal), an academic journal on order theory *
Order (mathematics) Order in mathematics may refer to: Set theory * Total order and partial order, a binary relation generalizing the usual ordering of numbers and of words in a dictionary * Ordered set * Order in Ramsey theory, uniform structures in consequence to ...
, * 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 * Ordinate in mathematics, the ''y'' element of an ordered pair (''x'', ''y'') *
Partially ordered set In mathematics, especially order theory, a partially ordered set (also poset) formalizes and generalizes the intuitive concept of an ordering, sequencing, or arrangement of the elements of a set. A poset consists of a set together with a binary ...
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Complete partial order In mathematics, the phrase complete partial order is variously used to refer to at least three similar, but distinct, classes of partially ordered sets, characterized by particular completeness properties. Complete partial orders play a central ro ...
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Permutation In mathematics, a permutation of a set is, loosely speaking, an arrangement of its members into a sequence or linear order, or if the set is already ordered, a rearrangement of its elements. The word "permutation" also refers to the act or pr ...
, the act of arranging all the members of a set into some sequence or order *
Ranking A ranking is a relationship between a set of items such that, for any two items, the first is either "ranked higher than", "ranked lower than" or "ranked equal to" the second. In mathematics, this is known as a weak order or total preorder of ...
* Stochastic ordering of random variables or probability distributions


Physics

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Implicate and explicate order Implicate order and explicate order are ontological concepts for quantum theory coined by theoretical physicist David Bohm during the early 1980s. They are used to describe two different frameworks for understanding the same phenomenon or aspect ...
, 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, mathematical model of the practical reconstruction of sampled signals *
Modulation order The modulation order of a digital communication scheme is determined by the number of the different symbols that can be transmitted using it. Modulation order can only be defined for digital modulations. The simplest forms of digital modulation ar ...
, the number of different symbols that can be sent using a given modulation * Polynomial order, of a filter transfer function


Other uses in science and technology

* ''ORDER'' (spacecraft), a space debris removal transport satellite *
Order (mouldings) An order refers to each of a series of mouldings most often found in Romanesque and Gothic arches. Arches and vaults Architectural elements {{architecturalelement-stub ...
, each of a series of recessed arches and supports around a doorway or similar feature *
Classical order An order in architecture is a certain assemblage of parts subject to uniform established proportions, regulated by the office that each part has to perform. Coming down to the present from Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman civilization, the arc ...
, architectonic orders in architecture *
Collation Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order. Many systems of collation are based on numerical order or alphabetical order, or extensions and combinations thereof. Collation is a fundamental element of most office fil ...
, the ordering of information **
Alphabetical order Alphabetical order is a system whereby character strings are placed in order based on the position of the characters in the conventional ordering of an alphabet. It is one of the methods of collation. In mathematics, a lexicographical order is ...
, the ordering of letters *
Order of reaction In chemistry, the rate law or rate equation for a reaction is an equation that links the initial or forward reaction rate with the concentrations or pressures of the reactants and constant parameters (normally rate coefficients and partial reactio ...
, a concept of chemical kinetics *
Stream order The stream order or waterbody order is a positive whole number used in geomorphology and hydrology to indicate the level of branching in a river system. There are various approachesKoschitzki, 2.3, pp. 12ff to the topological ordering of ...
, used to define river networks based on a hierarchy of tributaries


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Chaos (disambiguation) Chaos or CHAOS may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Fictional elements * Chaos (''Kinnikuman'') * Chaos (''Sailor Moon'') * Chaos (''Sesame Park'') * Chaos (''Warhammer'') * Chaos, in ''Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy'' * Cha ...
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Classification Classification is a process related to categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated and understood. Classification is the grouping of related facts into classes. It may also refer to: Business, organizat ...
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Coordination (disambiguation) Coordination may refer to: * Coordination (linguistics), a compound grammatical construction * Coordination complex, consisting of a central atom or ion and a surrounding array of bound molecules or ions * Coordination number or ligancy of a cen ...
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Disorder (disambiguation) Disorder may refer to randomness, non-order, or no intelligible pattern. Disorder may also refer to: Healthcare * Disorder (medicine), a functional abnormality or disturbance * Mental disorder or psychological disorder, a psychological pattern ...
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Ordinal (disambiguation) Ordinal may refer to: * Ordinal data, a statistical data type consisting of numerical scores that exist on an arbitrary numerical scale * Ordinal date, a simple form of expressing a date using only the year and the day number within that year * ...
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Organization (disambiguation) An organization or organisation is an entity, such as an institution or an association, that has a collective goal and is linked to an external environment. Organization or organisation may also refer to: Arts and media Music * ''Organisation'' ...
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Structure (disambiguation) The structure of a thing is how the parts of it relate to each other, how it is "assembled". Structure may also refer to: Architecture * Architectural structure, a man-made structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or con ...
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