order
- Noun. (uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
- Noun. (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
- Noun. (countable) A command.
- Noun. (countable) A request for some product or service.
- 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; as, the Jesuit Order.
- Noun. (countable) A society of knights; as, the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
- 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. (context, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
- 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. (mathematics) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.
- Noun. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
- Noun. (context, order theory) A partially ordered set.
- Noun. (context, order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partically ordered set.
- Noun. (context, mathematics) The highest exponent appearing in a polynomial.
- Verb. To set in some sort of order.
- Verb. To arrange, set in proper order.
- Verb. To issue a command.
- Verb. To request some product or service.
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