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- ordre (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ored(h)- (“to arrange”), of unknown origin. Related to Latin ōrdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”).
Pronunciation
- (RP) IPA: /ˈɔːdə/, SAMPA: /"O:d@/
- (GenAm) IPA: /ˈɔɹdɚ/, SAMPA: /"Ord@`/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(r)də(r)
- Hyphenation: or‧der
Noun
order (countable and uncountable; plural orders)
- (uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
- (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
- (countable) A command.
- (countable) A request for some product or service.
- (countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles; as, the Jesuit Order.
- (countable) A society of knights; as, the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
- (countable) 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.
- (countable, biology, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank
- Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales.
- (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
- (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
- a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter.
- (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
- (mathematics) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.
- (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph
- (order theory) A partially ordered set.
- (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partically ordered set.
- (mathematics) The highest exponent appearing in a polynomial.
Quotations
- 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Luke 1:1
- Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
- Donald Knuth. The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and Searching, Addison-Wesley, 1973, chapter 8:
- Since only two of our tape drives were in working order, I was ordered to order more tape units in short order, in order to order the data several orders of magnitude faster.
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Verb
order (third-person singular simple present orders, present participle ordering, simple past and past participle ordered)
- To set in some sort of order.
- To arrange, set in proper order.
- To issue a command.
- To request some product or service.
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Translations
to set in (any) order
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Noun
order c.
Declension
Declension of order| singular | plural | |||
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| Common | indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite |
| nominative | order | ordern | order | orderna |
| genitive | orders | orderns | orders | ordernas |
Related terms
- arresteringsorder
- dagorder
- förhållningsorder
- häktningsorder
- kabinettsorder
- kontraorder
- köporder
- kundorder
- orden
- orderbok
- ordergivning
- ordervägran
- ordna
- ordning
- postorder
- säljorder
- skyddsorder
- stallorder
- stororder
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Order
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Look up order in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Order may refer to:Contents
- 1 Ordinality
- 2 Philosophy
- 3 Science and mathematics
- 4 Computer science
- 5 Electronics and telecommunications
- 6 Economics and commerce
- 7 Legal, political, and military
- 8 Architecture and urban planning
- 9 Honors
- 10 Religious, chivalric, fraternal, and ideological
- 11 Media and entertainment
- 12 See also
Ordinality
- Collation, the sequencing and ordering of text
- Order of precedence
Philosophy
Science and mathematics
- Order and disorder (physics), measured by an order parameter or more generally by entropy
- An ordered world, the cosmos, antithetical concept of chaos
- Order, the category number of lighthouse Fresnel lenses, defining size and focal length
- Order (biology), a rank between class and family, or a taxon at that rank
- Order (mathematics), various meanings
- Order of reaction, a concept of chemical kinetics
- Order of hierarchical complexity, quantified by the Model of Hierarchical Complexity, the ordinal complexity of tasks that are addressed
- Social order, a concept used in sociology, history and other social sciences, referring to the conduct of society
- World order (disambiguation), including the concept of a world government
- Topological order, an organized quantum state
Computer science
- Order of computation, the computational complexity of an algorithm
- Canonical order (disambiguation), the order of elements that obeys a certain set of rules or specifications
- Z-order, which graphics cover up others on computer screens
Electronics and telecommunications
- First-order hold in signal processing
- Modulation order, the number of different symbols that can be sent using a given modulation
- The polynomial order of a Filter (signal processing) transfer function
Economics and commerce
- Order (business), an instruction from a customer to buy
- Order (exchange), customer's instruction to a stock broker
- Money order
- Work order
Legal, political, and military
- Court order, made by a judge, e.g. a restraining order
- Executive order (disambiguation), issued by the executive branch of government
- General order, a published directive from a commander
- Standing order (disambiguation), a general order of indefinite duration, and similar ongoing rules in a parliament
- Law and order (politics)
- Military command
- Tactical formation, an arrangement or deployment of moving military forces
Architecture and urban planning
- Architectonic orders: see classical order
- Public order, a concept in urban planning
Honors
- Order (honour), medal or award
Religious, chivalric, fraternal, and ideological
- The Order (group), an underground American neo-Nazi organization active in 1983 and 1984
- Chivalric order, established since the 14th century
- Fraternal order
- Religious order
- Monastic order, established circa 300 AD
- Military order, established in the crusades
- Tariqa or Sufi Order
- Holy Orders, the rite or sacrament in which clergy are ordained
- Order of Mass, the set of texts of the Roman Catholic Church Latin Rite Mass that are generally invariable
Media and entertainment
- Order (album), 2009 album by German band Maroon
- Orders (film), a 1974 film by Canadian filmmaker, Michel Brault
See also
- Collation (disambiguation)
- Coordination (disambiguation)
- Ordinal (disambiguation)
- Ordinate, in mathematics, the ordinate of an ordered pair, e.g. y in (x, y)
- Ordination, process by which individuals are consecrated
- Subordinate
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