noun Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
noun A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
noun The state of being well arranged.
Example: The house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
noun Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
Example: to preserve order in a community or an assembly
noun A command.
noun A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
noun A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles.
Example: St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537.
noun An association of knights.
Example: the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
noun Any group of people with common interests.
noun A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
noun A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
Example: Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales.
noun A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.
Example: talent of a high order
noun (chiefly plural) An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry.
Example: to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry
noun The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (since the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural design.
noun The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
noun A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
Example: a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter
noun The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
noun The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set.
noun (of an element of a group) For given group G and element g ∈ G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gn = e, where e is the identity element of G; if no such number exists, the element is said to be of infinite order (or sometimes zero order).
noun The number of vertices in a graph.
noun A partially ordered set.
noun The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.
noun The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.
Example: A quadratic polynomial, a x^2 + b x + c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2.
noun A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.