Order 53580 224219416 2008-07-07T21:22:56Z JMK 938515 /* See also */ two columns {{wiktionary}} {{TOCright}} '''Order''' may refer to: ==Honors== *[[Order (decoration)]], medal or award ==Religious, chivalric and fraternal== *[[Chivalric order]], established since the 14th century *[[Fraternal order]] *[[Holy Orders]], the rite or sacrament in which clergy are ordained *[[Military order]], established in the crusades *[[Monasticism|Monastic order]], established since circa 300 AD *[[Religious order]] *[[Order (organization)]], an organization of people united by a common fraternal bond or social aim *[[Tariqa]] or Sufi Order *A [[Cardassian]] military unit in the fictional Star Trek universe *An [[Mishnah|Order of the Mishnah]], the name given to a sub-division of the Mishnah, a major religious text ==Legal, political and military== *[[Court order]], made by a judge; a '''restraining order''', for example, is a type of injunction *Direct order *[[Executive order]], issued by the executive branch of government *[[General order]], a published directive from a commander *[[Law and order (politics)]] *[[Social order]], referring to the conduct of society *[[Standing order]], a general order of indefinite duration, and similar ongoing rules in a parliament *[[World order]], including the concept of a world government ==In economics and commerce== *[[Money order]] *[[Order (business)]], an instruction from a customer to buy *[[Order (exchange)]], customer's instruction to a stock broker *Order of degrees in the [[Elliott wave principle]] ==In science== *[[Order (biology)]], a rank between class and family, or a taxon at that rank *[[Order of reaction]], a concept of chemical kinetics *[[Order (crystal lattice)]] an arrangement of composition, spin, magnetism, etc. in a crystal lattice. *[[Model of hierarchical complexity|Order of hierarchical complexity]], the ordinal complexity of tasks that are addressed *[[Social order]], a concept used in sociology, history and other social sciences *[[Topological order]], an organized quantum state *An [[order parameter]] in physics has value 1 for complete order and value 0 for complete disorder *The contrary of [[chaos]], disorder (in the sense of randomness), or [[entropy]] *A way of categorizing the size of lighthouse [[Fresnel lens]]es ==In mathematics== ===Order in arithmetic, analysis and combinatorics=== *[[Orders of approximation]] in Big O notation *[[Orders of magnitude]], a class of scale or magnitude of any amount *[[Order of convergence]], a measurement of convergence *Order, or [[Degree of a polynomial|degree of a polynomial]] *Order, or [[Matrix (mathematics)#Terminology and notation|dimension of a matrix]] *[[Order (differential equation)#Types of differential equations|Order]], or order of highest derivative, of a differential equation *Order in the [[Josephus permutation]] *[[Weak order of permutations]] *[[Twelvefold way#Ordered selections and partitions|Ordered selections and partitions]] of the twelvefold way in combinatorics *Ordered set, a [[permutation]], [[bijection]] or [[cyclic order]] *Unordered [[subset]] or combination *Ordered list, a [[tuple]] or [[sequence]] *Long-range aperiodic order, in for instance [[pinwheel tiling]] *[[Multiplicative order]] in modular arithmetic *[[Z-order (curve)]], a space-filling curve ===Order in fractals=== *[[Complexor]], or complex order in fractals *Orders of construction in the [[Pythagoras tree]] *Order of extension in [[Lakes of Wada]] *Order of [[Fractal dimension|Rényi dimensions]] ===Order in graphs=== *Graph order, the number of nodes in a [[Graph (mathematics)|graph]] [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GraphOrder.html] *[[Ordered pair]], including undirected and directed graphs *Ordered [[Tuple|triple]], or mixed graph **[[Glossary of graph theory]] ===Order in mathematical theories=== *[[Order (group theory)]], the cardinality of a group or period of an element *[[Order (number theory)]] **[[Multiplicative partition]], unordered factorization of numbers *Order in [[Ramsey theory]], uniform structures in consequence to critical set cardinality *[[Order (ring theory)]], an algebraic structure *[[Order theory]], which studies various binary relations known as orders **[[Dense order]] of rational and real numbers **[[Order topology]], a topology of [[Total order]] for totally ordered sets **[[Partially ordered set]], or poset **[[Total order]], a generalization of the complete ordered field of real numbers ***[[Glossary of order theory]] ***[[List of order topics|List of order theory topics]] *[[Set theory (music)]] encompasses ordered pitch and pitch classes (Musical set theory) *Type theory encompasses: [[First-order logic]], [[Second-order logic]] and [[Higher-order logic]] ==In computer science== *Order is a description of complexity or scalability in [[computational complexity theory]] and [[Big O notation]]. *[[Order (information processing)]], a measure of the number of objects or sub-systems in a system *[[Metamodeling#Sequential activities|Ordered activities]] in Metamodeling *[[Order by (SQL)|ORDER BY]] clause in SQL *Ordered or unordered data in [[Data synchronization]] *[[Ordered list]] of names or words in HTML *[[Canonical order]], the order of elements that obeys a certain set of rules or specifications *[[Z-order]] on computer screens ==In electronics and telecommunications== *[[First-order hold]] in signal processing *[[Modulation order]], the number of different symbols that can be sent using a given modulation *Way of categorizing [[Electronic filter]]s by steepness, see [[Filter design]] and [[Elliptic filter]] ==In architecture and urban planning== *Architectonic orders: see [[classical order]] *[[Public order]], a concept in urban planning ==Miscellaneous== * [[Collation]], the sequencing and ordering of text in alphabetical or [[Lexicographical order]] * [[Implicate and Explicate Order according to David Bohm|Implicate and Explicate Order]], as defined by David Bohm * ''[[Orders (film)]]'', a 1974 film by Canadian filmmaker, Michel Brault ==See also== {| |- valign=top | *[[The Order]] (disambiguation) *[[Collation (disambiguation)|Collation]] (disambiguation) *[[Ordinal]] *[[Ordinate]] | *[[Ordination]] *[[Coordination]] *[[Subordinate]] |} {{disambig}} [[bs:Red (čvor)]] [[bg:Орден]] [[ca:Ordre (desambiguació)]] [[cs:Řád]] [[da:Orden]] [[de:Orden]] [[es:Orden]] [[eo:Ordeno]] [[fr:Ordre]] [[gl:Orde]] [[it:Ordine]] [[la:Ordo (discretiva)]] [[lv:Ordenis]] [[ja:オーダー (曖昧さ回避)]] [[no:Orden]] [[pl:Porządek]] [[pt:Ordem]] [[ro:Ordin (dezambiguizare)]] [[ru:Орден (значения)]] [[scn:Òrdini]] [[simple:Order]] [[sk:Rád]] [[sv:Ordning]] [[zh:目]]