Order

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Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to:

  • A socio-political or established or existing order, e.g.
    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

People

Arts, entertainment, and media

Business

  • 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

Legal and political terminology

Military

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

  • 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

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    • Ordo naturalis (natural order), an outdated rank in biology, equivalent to the modern rank of family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

Mathematics

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, mathematical model of the practical reconstruction of sampled signals
  • Modulation order, 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), 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
  • 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

See also

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