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▸ noun: (countable) A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
▸ noun: (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
▸ noun: (countable) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
▸ noun: (countable) A command.
▸ noun: (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (countable) An association of knights.
▸ noun: Any group of people with common interests.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (countable, biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: (Christianity) An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.
▸ noun: (architecture) 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.
▸ noun: (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
▸ noun: (electronics) A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
▸ noun: (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
▸ noun: (set theory, of a set or algebraic structure) The number of elements contained within (the given object); formally, the cardinality (of the given object).
▸ noun: (group theory, 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).
▸ noun: (graph theory, of a graph) The number of vertices in the graph (i.e. the set-theoretic order of the set of vertices of the graph).
▸ noun: (order theory) A partially ordered set.
▸ noun: (order theory) The relation with which a partially ordered set is equipped.
▸ noun: (algebra, of a monomial) The sum of the exponents of the variables involved in the expression.
▸ noun: (algebra, of a polynomial in one variable) The order of the leading monomial; (equivalently) the largest power of the variable involved in the given expression.
▸ noun: (finance) A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.
▸ verb: (transitive) To set in some sort of order.
▸ verb: (transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.
▸ verb: (transitive) To issue a command to.
▸ verb: (transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
▸ verb: To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
▸ noun: (scouting) The Order of the Arrow.
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order of magnitude,
orderliness,
regulate,
prescribe,
rate,
regularize,
say,
tell,
set up,
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