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[edit] Etymology

From Old French ordre.

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Singular
order

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural orders

order (countable and uncountable; plural orders)

  1. (uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
  2. (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
  3. (countable) A command.
  4. (countable) A request for some product or service.
  5. (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.
  6. (countable) A society of knights; as, the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
  7. (countable, biology, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank
    Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales.
  8. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
  9. (electronics) 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.
  10. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
  11. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph
  12. (order theory) A partially ordered set.

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  • 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Luke 1:1
    Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...

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Terms derived from the noun "order"

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arrangement, disposition
good arrangement
command
request for some product or service
religious group
society of knights
taxonomical classification
Cricket - The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat
Electronics - a power of polynomial function in a circuit’s block
Chemistry - a number of a chemical reaction
Graphtheory - a number of vertices in a graph
partially ordered set
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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to order

Third person singular
orders

Simple past
ordered

Past participle
ordered

Present participle
ordering

to order (third-person singular simple present orders, present participle ordering, simple past and past participle ordered)

  1. To set in (any) order (1).
  2. To set in (a good) order (2).
  3. To issue a command.
  4. To request some product or service.

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to set in (any) order
to set in (a good) order
to issue a command
to request some product or service

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order c.

Inflection for order Singular Plural
common Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative order ordern order orderna
Genitive orders orderns orders ordernas
  1. order; a command
  2. order; a request for some product or service

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