====================================================================== = order = ====================================================================== Introduction ====================================================================== Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * A socio-political or established or existing order, e.g. World order, Ancien Regime, Pax Britannica * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood * Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of different ways * Hierarchy, an arrangement of items that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another * An action or inaction that must be obeyed, mandated by someone in authority People ====================================================================== * Orders (surname) Arts, entertainment, and media ====================================================================== * 'Order' (film), a 2005 Russian film * 'Order' (album), a 2009 album by Maroon * "Order", a 2016 song from 'Brand New Maid' by Band-Maid * 'Orders' (1974 film), a film by Michel Brault * "Orders" ('Star Wars: The Clone Wars') Business ====================================================================== * Order (business), a buyer's intention to obtain goods and services from a seller * Blanket order, a purchase order to allow multiple delivery dates over a period of time * Money order or postal order, a financial instrument usually intended for sending money through the mail * Purchase order, a document issued by a buyer to a seller, indicating types, quantities, and agreed prices * Sales order, an order issued by a business or trader to a customer Exclusive organisations ====================================================================== * Order (distinction), a visible honour in society ** Dynastic order of a presently or formerly sovereign royal house ** National order of a sovereign state ** Order of merit of a state or other entity ** Order of precedence, a sequential hierarchy of the nominal importance of items * Fraternal order * Military order (religious society), established in the era of the Crusades * Order of chivalry, established since the Middle Ages Legal and political terminology ====================================================================== * Court order, made by a judge, e.g., a restraining order * Compulsory purchase order, allowing certain public bodies to acquire land or property without the consent of the owner * Executive order (disambiguation) * Law and order (politics), approach focusing on harsher enforcement and penalties as ways to reduce crime * Public-order crime, type of crime that runs contrary to social order ** Organized crime, groupings of highly centralized criminal enterprises * Social order, set or system of linked social structures, institutions, relations, customs, values and practices * Statutory instrument, type of delegated legislation * Professional order, organization which comprises all the members of the same profession Military ====================================================================== * Military order (disambiguation) * Military order (instruction), binding instruction given by a senior rank to a junior rank in a military context ** General order, a published directive from a commander ** Standing order (disambiguation) * An order of chivalry, if membership is conferred on military personnel as a result of valorous, exemplary or distinguished service * Tactical formation, an arrangement or deployment of moving military forces Philosophy ====================================================================== * Great order of being, a mediaeval Christian conceptualisation of the physical world * Order (logic), a property used to characterize logical systems * Natural order (philosophy), the moral source from which natural law seeks to derive its authority Religion ====================================================================== * Orange Order, Protestant fraternal organization in Northern Ireland, includes the Canadian Orange Order, African Orange Order and Scottish Orange Order * Ecclesiastical decoration, order or a decoration conferred by a head of a church * Holy orders, the rite or sacrament in which clergy are ordained * Monastic order, a religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual work * Order of Mass, an outline of a Mass celebration * Religious order, a community or organization set apart from the general society for devotion to a religious practice ** Religious order (Catholic), a religious order in the context of the Roman Catholic Church *** Canon regular, or canonical order, a class of religious orders for priests in the Catholic Church Biology and healthcare ======================== * Order (biology), a taxonomic classification of organisms by rank ** Order, in phytosociology, an ecological grouping of plants, between alliance and class ** 'Ordo naturalis' (natural order), an outdated rank in biology, equivalent to the modern rank of family * Order, in medicine, refers to a formal request made by authorized health practitioners to carry out a specific clinical action concerning diagnosis or treatment Computing =========== * Order of computation, the computational complexity in the analysis of algorithms ** Big O notation, notation describing limiting behavior * Z-order, which graphics cover up others on computer screens Mathematics ============= * 'Order' (journal), an academic journal on order theory * Order, an arrangement of items in sequence * Order, the result of enumeration of a set of items * Order, a mathematical structure modeling sequenced items, dealt with in order theory * Order of hierarchical complexity, quantified by the model of hierarchical complexity, the ordinal complexity of tasks that are addressed * Ordered set, an ordered structure, in mathematics * Order (ring theory), concept in algebraic number theory * Ordinate in mathematics, the 'y' element of an ordered pair ('x', 'y') * Partially ordered set ** Complete partial order * Permutation, the act of arranging all the members of a set into some sequence or order * Ranking * Stochastic ordering of random variables or probability distributions Physics ========= * Implicate and explicate order, ontological concepts for quantum theory * Order and disorder (physics), measured by an order parameter or more generally by entropy * Order, optics, the category number of lighthouse Fresnel lenses, defining size and focal length * Topological order in quantum mechanics, an organized quantum state Signal processing =================== * First-order hold, mathematical model of the practical reconstruction of sampled signals * Polynomial order, of a filter transfer function Other uses in science and technology ====================================== * 'ORDER' (spacecraft), a space debris removal transport satellite * Order (mouldings), each of a series of recessed arches and supports around a doorway or similar feature * Classical order, architectonic orders in architecture * Collation, the ordering of information ** Alphabetical order, the ordering of letters * Order of reaction, a concept of chemical kinetics * Spontaneous order, the natural emergence of structure in systems * Stream order, used to define river networks based on a hierarchy of tributaries See also ====================================================================== * * Chaos (disambiguation) * Classification * Coordination (disambiguation) * Disorder (disambiguation) * Ordinal (disambiguation) * Organization (disambiguation) * Structure (disambiguation) License ========= All content on Gopherpedia comes from Wikipedia, and is licensed under CC-BY-SA License URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Original Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/order .