Order
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Order may refer to:
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Religious
- Holy Orders, the rite or sacrament in which clergy are ordained
- Monastic order, originating circa 300 AD
- Military order, in the crusades
- Chivalric order, established since the 14th century
Honors
- Order (decoration), medal or award
Legal and military
- Court order, made by a judge
- Executive order, issued by the executive branch of government
- General order, a published directive from a commander
- Standing order, a general order of indefinite duration, and similar ongoing rules in a parliament
- Direct order
In scientific classification
- Order (biology), a rank between class and family, or a taxon at that rank
- social order, a concept used in sociology, history and other social sciences
- Order (chemistry), a concept of chemical kinetics
In mathematics
- Order (group theory), the cardinality of a group
- Order theory, a branch of mathematics that studies various kinds of binary relations known as orders
- Order (ring theory), a kind of an algebraic structure
- Orders of approximation, Big O notation
- Orders of magnitude, a class of scale or magnitude of any amount
In computer science
- Canonical order, the order of elements that obeys a certain set of rules or specifications
In telecommunications
- Order of a modulation, the number of different symbols that can be sent using a given modulation
Miscellaneous
- The contrary of chaos, disorder (in the sense of randomness)
- Collating order, sequence for text, such as alphabetical
- Order (business), an instruction from a customer to buy
- Order (exchange), customer's instruction to a stock broker
- Order (information processing), a measure of the number of objects or sub-systems in a system
- Architectonic orders: see classical order
- The Order
See also
- ordinal
- ordinate
- ordination
- coordination
- subordinate[[cs:?�d]]
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Order" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
