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Order or ORDER or Orders may refer to:

  • Orderliness, a desire for organization
  • 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

  • Order (album), a 2009 album by Maroon
  • "Order", a 2016 song from Brand New Maid by Band-Maid
  • Orders (film), a 1974 film by Michel Brault

Business

Culture

  • Order (distinction), is a visible honour in society
    • Dynastic order of a presently or formerly sovereign royal house
    • Order of merit of a state or other entity
    • Order of precedence, a sequential hierarchy of the nominal importance of items, often people
  • Fraternal order
  • Military order (religious society), established in the era of the crusades
  • Order of chivalry, established since the Middle Ages

Law and society

  • Court order, made by a judge, e.g., a restraining order
  • Executive order (disambiguation), issued by the executive branch of government
  • Law and order (politics)
  • Public-order crime
  • Social order in sociology, history and other social sciences, referring to the conduct of society
  • Statutory instrument, which includes legislative orders
  • World order (disambiguation), including the concept of a world government
  • Professional order

Military

  • Military order (disambiguation)
  • Military order (instruction) (or "command," distinguish from "military command")
    • General order, a published directive from a commander
    • Standing order (disambiguation), a general order of indefinite duration, and similar ongoing rules in a parliament
  • Tactical formation, an arrangement or deployment of moving military forces

Philosophy

  • 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

  • Canonical order, or Canons Regular, a class of religious orders in the Catholic Church
  • Ecclesiastical decoration, of a head of a denomination
  • Holy orders, the rite or sacrament in which clergy are ordained
  • Monastic order, established circa 300 AD
  • Order of Mass, the set of texts of the Roman Catholic Church Latin Rite Mass that are generally invariable
  • Religious order

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

  • Order of computation, the computational complexity in the analysis of algorithms
    • Big O notation
  • Z-order, which graphics cover up others on computer screens

Mathematics

  • Order (journal), an academic journal on order theory
  • Order (mathematics), several meanings
  • 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
    • Complete partial order
  • 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

  • Implicate and explicate order as defined by David Bohm
  • 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 in signal processing
  • 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
  • Classical order, architectonic orders in architecture
  • Collation, the ordering of information
    • Alphabetical order, the ordering of letters
  • Order of reaction, a concept of chemical kinetics
  • Stream order, used to define river networks based on a hierarchy of tributaries

See also

  • All pages with titles containing order
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