Priority

Priority may refer to:

• Priority date, a concept of establishing waiting times in the immigration process by United States Department of State
• Priority level, the priority of emergency communications
• Priority right, a time-limited right, triggered by the first filing of an application for a patent
• Priority signs, a traffic sign that specifies which route has the right of way
• Scientific priority, the priority of scientific ideas
• Priority of the scientific names of organisms, including:
  • In botanical nomenclature
  • In zoological nomenclature
• Principle of Priority, the principle that the oldest available name for a biological taxon is the valid one
• Subordination (finance), the order of priorities in claims for ownership or interest in various assets
• A tag or attribute of a requirement in software or systems engineering
• In IUPAC organic nomenclature, each functional group is given a priority number
• as a proper name
  • Priority Records, a record label started in 1985 and acquired by Capitol Records
  • Priorities, debut album by Bedfordshire-based rock band, Don Broco

See also

• Scheduling (computing), the way processes are assigned priorities in a run queue; prioritization
• Bug Priority (Software)
• Preference
• Preemption (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Priority