Order
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Order may refer to:
[edit] Philosophy
- Natural order (philosophy)
- The contrary of chaos
- Implicate and explicate order according to David Bohm
[edit] Science
- Order (biology), a rank between class and family, or a taxon at that rank
- Order of reaction, a concept of chemical kinetics
- Order (crystal lattice) an arrangement of composition, spin, magnetism, etc. in a crystal lattice.
- Order of hierarchical complexity, the ordinal complexity of tasks that are addressed
- Social order, a concept used in sociology, history and other social sciences
- Topological order, an organized quantum state
- An order parameter in physics has value 1 for complete order and value 0 for complete disorder
- The contrary of disorder (in the sense of randomness) or entropy
- A way of categorizing the size of lighthouse Fresnel lenses
[edit] Ordinality
Order identifies what comes before or after what.
- Alphabetical order
- Collation, the sequencing and ordering of text in alphabetical or lexicographical order
- Order of precedence
Any of a number of concepts in mathematics are concerned with order in this sense.
[edit] Mathematics
See Order (mathematics), a disambiguation page
[edit] Computer science
- order of computation, the computational complexity of an algorithm
- Canonical order, the order of elements that obeys a certain set of rules or specifications
- Z-order, the order of windows on computer screens
[edit] 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 transfer function
[edit] Economics and commerce
- Money order
- Order (business), an instruction from a customer to buy
- Order (exchange), customer's instruction to a stock broker
- Order of degrees in the Elliott wave principle
[edit] Legal, political, and military
- Court order, made by a judge; a restraining order, for example, is a type of injunction
- Executive order, issued by the executive branch of government
- General order, a published directive from a commander
- Law and order (politics)
- Military command
- Social order, referring to the conduct of society
- Standing order, a general order of indefinite duration, and similar ongoing rules in a parliament
- World order, including the concept of a world government
[edit] Architecture and urban planning
- Architectonic orders: see classical order
- Public order, a concept in urban planning
[edit] Honors
- Order (decoration), medal or award
[edit] Religious, chivalric, fraternal, and ideological
- Chivalric order, established since the 14th century
- Fraternal order
- Holy Orders, the rite or sacrament in which clergy are ordained
- Military order, established in the crusades
- Monastic order, established since circa 300 AD
- Religious order
- Order (organization), an organization of people united by a common fraternal bond or social aim
- Tariqa or Sufi Order
- Cardassian military unit in the fictional Star Trek universe
- Order of the Mishnah, the name given to a sub-division of the Mishnah, a major religious text
- Order of the Mass is the set of texts of the Roman Catholic Church Latin Rite Mass that are generally invariable.
- The Order (group), an underground American neo-Nazi organization active in 1983 and 1984.
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Orders (film), a 1974 film by Canadian filmmaker, Michel Brault
[edit] See also
- Collation (disambiguation)
- Coordination (disambiguation)
- Ordinal (disambiguation)
- Ordinate, in mathematics, the ordinate of an ordered pair (x, y) is its second component, i.e. it is y
- Ordination
- Subordinate
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