order

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From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ored(h)- (“to arrange”), of unknown origin. Related to Latin ōrdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”).

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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) 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.
  8. (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.
  9. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
  10. (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.
  11. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
  12. (mathematics) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.
  13. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph
  14. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
  15. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partically ordered set.
  16. (mathematics) The highest exponent appearing in a polynomial.

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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...
  • Donald Knuth. The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and Searching, Addison-Wesley, 1973, chapter 8:
    Since only two of our tape drives were in working order, I was ordered to order more tape units in short order, in order to order the data several orders of magnitude faster.

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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
awarded decoration
biology: taxonomical classification
cricket: sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat
electronics: power of polynomial function in a circuit’s block
Chemistry - a number of a chemical reaction
graph theory: number of vertices in a graph
partially ordered set
relation on a partially ordered set
highest exponent in a polynomial
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order (third-person singular simple present orders, present participle ordering, simple past and past participle ordered)

  1. To set in some sort of order.
  2. To arrange, set in proper order.
  3. To issue a command.
  4. To request some product or service.
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  • (arrange into some sort of order): sort, rank

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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

  1. First-person singular present of ordern.
  2. Imperative singular of ordern.

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order c.

  1. an order; a command
  2. an order; a request for some product or service

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Declension of order
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative order ordern order orderna
genitive orders orderns orders ordernas

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