Order

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Order has several meanings:

Contents 1 Religious 2 Honors 3 Legal and military 4 In scientific classification 5 In mathematics 6 In computer science 7 In telecommunications 8 Miscellaneous 9 See also

[change] Religious

• Holy orders is the rite or sacrament in which priests are ordained
• Monastic order refers to a group of people that live together, and share some ideals.

[change] Honors

• Order (decoration) is an award or medal

[change] Legal and military

• Court order, made by a judge
• 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

[change] 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

[change] 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
• Order (ring theory), a kind of an algebraic structure
• Orders of approximation, Big O notation
• Orders of magnitude, a class of scale or magnitude of any amount
• Order, or degree of a polynomial.

[change] In computer science

• Canonical order, the order of elements that obeys a certain set of rules or specifications

[change] In telecommunications

• Modulation order, the number of different symbols that can be sent using a given modulation

[change] Miscellaneous

• The contrary of chaos, disorder (in the sense of randomness), or entropy
• Collating order, sequence for text, such as alphabetical
• 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

[change] See also

• ordinal
• ordinate
• ordination
• coordination
• subordinate