Definition of "order"
- noun
Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
The state of being well arranged.
A command.
A request for some product or service.
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.
A society of knights; as, the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
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.
A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
The sequence in which a side's batsmen bat; the batting order.
A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit's block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.
The number of vertices in a graph.
A partially ordered set.
The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partically ordered set.
The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.
- verb
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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