order

noun orders · ordre

1. countable Arrangement, disposition, or sequence. put the children in age order
2. countable A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence. In these situations we find the Genesee slate, the Tully limestone and the upper part of the Hamilton group, each one in its order disappearing beneath the lake level as we proceed southward.
3. uncountable The state of being well arranged. The house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
4. countable Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet. to preserve order in a community or an assembly
5. countable A command. give an order
6. countable A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods. make an order
7. countable The goods requested. Your order should arrive within two days.
8. 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. St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537.
9. countable An association of knights. the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
10. countable, uncountable Any group of people with common interests.
11. 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. The Order of Propitious Clouds is a civilian order that can be awarded to Taiwan citizens or foreign nationals. It is divided into a total of nine "classes" or grades, of which the Special Grand Cordon is the highest. Pelosi said she was particularly honored to receive the award from Tsai -- "a woma
12. countable A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank. The magnolia and nutmeg families belong to the order Magnoliales.
13. countable, uncountable A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort. the higher or lower orders of society
14. countable, uncountable An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders. There have been many major and minor orders in the history of Christianity: the order of virgins, of deacons, priests, lectors, acolytes, porters, catechists, widows, etc.
15. countable, uncountable The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (since the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural design.
16. countable, uncountable The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
17. countable, uncountable Scale: size or scope. on another order
18. countable, uncountable 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
19. countable, uncountable The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
20. countable, uncountable, of a set or algebraic structure The number of elements contained within (the given object); formally, the cardinality (of the given object). 1911 [Cambridge University Press], William Burnside, Theory of Groups of Finite Order, 2nd Edition, Reprint, Dover (Dover Phoenix), 2004, page 222, In this case, the conjugate set contains n(n − 1)/x(x − 1) distinct sub-groups of order m, and H is therefore self-conjugate in a group K of order x(x −
21. countable, uncountable, of an element g of a group G The smallest positive natural number n such that (denoting the group operation multiplicatively) gⁿ is the identity element of G, if such an n exists; if no such n exists the element is said to be of infinite order (or sometimes zero order). The object of this note is to observe that it is possible to calculate the order of an element A of G#61;#92;mathit#123;GL#125;(d,q) on average using O(d³#92;mathsf#123;log#125;#92;q) field operations, assuming that qⁱ-1 has been factorised for i#92;led.
22. countable, uncountable, of a graph The number of vertices in the graph (i.e. the set-theoretic order of the set of vertices of the graph).
23. countable, uncountable A partially ordered set.
24. countable, uncountable The relation with which a partially ordered set is equipped.
25. countable, uncountable, of a monomial The sum of the exponents of the variables involved in the expression. The monomial x²ʸ³ᶻ is of order 2#43;3#43;1#61;6.
26. countable, uncountable, of a polynomial in one variable The order of the leading monomial; (equivalently) the largest power of the variable involved in the given expression. The quadratic polynomial ax²#43;bx#43;c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2 when a is nonzero.

    Similar: degree

27. countable, uncountable A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order. I then walked to Cochrane's & got an order on Sir Charles Asgill for my money.

Similar: ordo, association, brotherhood, league, sisterhood, society · Opposite: chaos, disorder

verb orders · ordering · ordered · order

1. transitive To set in some sort of order. We need to order them alphabetically.

   Similar: sort, rank

2. transitive To arrange, set in proper order. The books in the shelf need ordering.
3. transitive To issue a command to; to charge. to order troops to advance

   Similar: command

4. transitive To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order. You can now order most products to be delivered to your home.
5. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry. persons presented to be ordered deacons

proper noun the Order

1. The Order of the Arrow.