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Order may refer to:
Religious, chivalric and fraternal
- Holy Orders, the rite or sacrament in which clergy are ordained
- Monastic order, established since circa 300 AD
- Military order, established in the crusades
- Chivalric order, established since the 14th century
- Fraternal order
- Tariqa or Sufi Order
Honors
- Order (decoration) , medal or award
Legal 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
- Standing order, a general order of indefinite duration, and similar ongoing rules in a parliament
- Direct order
- Freeorder
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
- Partially ordered set, or poset
- Total order, including the complete ordered field of real numbers
- Dense order
- Glossary of order theory
- Order (ring theory), a kind of an algebraic structure
- Orders of approximation in Big O notation
- Orders of magnitude, a class of scale or magnitude of any amount
- Order, or degree of a polynomial
- Order, or dimension of a matrix
- Order (differential equation)
- Order, in consequence to critical set cardinality in Ramsey theory
- Order in the Josephus permutation
- Weak order of permutations
- Ordered set, a permutation, bijection or cyclic order
- Un-ordered subset, or combination
- Ordered lists, or tuples and sequences
- Ordered pair
Fractal orders:
- Complexor, or complex order in fractals
- Orders of construction in the Pythagoras tree
- Order of extension in Lakes of Wada
- Order of Rényi dimensions
- Long-range aperiodic order in for instance Pinwheel tiling
- Z-order space-filling curve
- List of order topics in mathematics
In computer science
- Canonical order, the order of elements that obeys a certain set of rules or specifications
- Z-order on computer screens
- In SQL, an ORDER BY clause
In telecommunications
- Modulation order, the number of different symbols that can be sent using a given modulation
Miscellaneous
- Social order, referring to the conduct of society
- Law and order (politics)
- The contrary of chaos, disorder (in the sense of randomness), or entropy
- Implicate and Explicate Order according to David Bohm
- Collating order, sequence for text, such as alphabetical
- Public order, a concept in urban planning
- 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
- Order (organization), an organization of people united by a common fraternal bond or social aim.
- Architectonic orders: see classical order
- Way of categorizing Electronic filters by steepness, see Filter design and Elliptic filter
- Way of categorizing the size of lighthouse Fresnel lenses
- The Order
- Order (food), a customer's choice of food at a restaurant or for delivery
- "Order", a song by Avail from their 1996 album 4am Friday
- A military unit in the Cardassian military in the fictional Star Trek universe