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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
Arts, entertainment, and media
Business
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
Legal and political terminology
Court order , made by a judge, e.g., a restraining order
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
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
Philosophy
Religion
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
Science and technology
Biology and healthcare
Order (biology) , a 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Ordo naturalis (natural order), an outdated rank in biology, equivalent to the modern rank of family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
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
Ordinate in mathematics, the y element of an ordered pair (x , y )
Partially ordered set
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
Signal processing
First-order hold , mathematical model of the practical reconstruction of sampled signals
Modulation order , the number of different symbols that can be sent using a given modulation
Polynomial order, of a
filter transfer function
Other uses in science and technology
See also
Topics referred to by the same term