Order Explained
Order, ORDER or Orders may refer 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
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
- Court order, made by a judge, e.g., a restraining order
- 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, organization which comprises all the members of the same profession
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
See main article: Order (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
- Ordinate in mathematics, the y element of an ordered pair (x, y)
- Partially ordered set
- 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
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
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