order

noun

1. (countable)Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

   “put the children in age order”

   “It's arranged in order of frequency”

2. (countable)A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

   “In these situations we find the Genesee slate, the Tully limestone and the upper part of the Hamilton group, each one in its order disappearing beneath the lake level as we proceed southward.”

   “In the latter portion of this period, the country was assailed by famine and pestilence - — a fearful visitation which will be noticed hereafter in its order of date, and of which it would be out of place to say more at present.”

   “1897, T. L. Heath (translator), Eutocius of Ascalon, Extract from a commentary by Eutocius, quoted in 1897 [CUP], T. L. Heath (editor), The Works of Archimedes, 2002, Dover, unnumbered page, His attempt I shall also give in its order.”

   “This narrative must be discussed later on, in its order.”

   “The latter comes into play only as we examine each word in its order in the line.”

3. (uncountable)The state of being well arranged.

   “The house is in order; the machinery is out of order.”

4. (countable)Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.

   “to preserve order in a community or an assembly”

   “Order in the court!”

   “He's the only person I know who's going to vote at all. Most people have given up on politicians. After all, politicians have been promising to return us to the glory, wealth, and order of the twentieth century ever since I can remember.”

5. (countable)A command.

   “give an order”

   “his inability to follow orders”

   “It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.”

   “John Hedley was Locomotive Foreman at Beattock. He was in bed, but they roused him, and he gave orders for one of his pilot engines to go up to the summit, get Mitchell's train, and take it to Carlisle.”

6. (countable)A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.

   “make an order”

   “receive an online order for the new range of sunglasses”

   “I ordered a burger and some fries.”

   “A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer.”

7. (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.

   “St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537.”

8. (countable)An association of knights.

   “the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.”

9. (countable, uncountable)Any group of people with common interests.
10. (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.

    “The Order of Propitious Clouds is a civilian order that can be awarded to Taiwan citizens or foreign nationals. It is divided into a total of nine "classes" or grades, of which the Special Grand Cordon is the highest. Pelosi said she was particularly honored to receive the award from Tsai -- "a woman president in one of the freest societies in the world."”

11. (countable)A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.

    “The magnolia and nutmeg families belong to the order Magnoliales.”

    “Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.”

12. (countable, uncountable)A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.

    “the higher or lower orders of society”

    “talent of a high order”

    “They are in equal order to their several ends.”

    “Various orders various ensigns bear.”

    “[…] which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime.”

13. (countable, uncountable)An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.

    “There have been many major and minor orders in the history of Christianity: the order of virgins, of deacons, priests, lectors, acolytes, porters, catechists, widows, etc.”

    “to take orders or holy orders means to be ordained a deacon or priest”

14. (countable, uncountable)The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (since the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural design.
15. (countable, uncountable)The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
16. (countable, uncountable)Scale: size or scope.

    “on another order”

17. (countable, uncountable)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”

18. (countable, uncountable)The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
19. (countable, uncountable)The number of elements contained within (the given object); formally, the cardinality (of the given object).

    “1911 [Cambridge University Press], William Burnside, Theory of Groups of Finite Order, 2nd Edition, Reprint, Dover (Dover Phoenix), 2004, page 222, In this case, the conjugate set contains n(n − 1)/x(x − 1) distinct sub-groups of order m, and H is therefore self-conjugate in a group K of order x(x − l)m.”

    “For various reasons it turns out to be better to enlarge this set of invariants to include suitable normalizers of subgroups of odd prime order.”

20. (countable, uncountable)The smallest positive natural number n such that (denoting the group operation multiplicatively) gⁿ is the identity element of G, if such an n exists; if no such n exists the element is said to be of infinite order (or sometimes zero order).

    “The object of this note is to observe that it is possible to calculate the order of an element A of G#61;#92;mathit#123;GL#125;(d,q) on average using O(d³#92;mathsf#123;log#125;#92;q) field operations, assuming that qⁱ-1 has been factorised for i#92;led.”

    “2010, A. R. Vasishta, A. K. Vasishta, Modern Algebra, Krishna Prakashan Media, 60th Edition, page 180, Since in a finite group the order of an element must be a divisor of the order of the group, therefore o (a) cannot be 3 and so we must have o (a)=4=the order of the group G.”

21. (countable, uncountable)The number of vertices in the graph (i.e. the set-theoretic order of the set of vertices of the graph).
22. (countable, uncountable)A partially ordered set.
23. (countable, uncountable)The relation with which a partially ordered set is equipped.
24. (countable, uncountable)The sum of the exponents of the variables involved in the expression.

    “The monomial x²ʸ³ᶻ is of order 2#43;3#43;1#61;6.”

25. (countable, uncountable)The order of the leading monomial; (equivalently) the largest power of the variable involved in the given expression.

    “The quadratic polynomial ax²#43;bx#43;c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2 when a is nonzero.”

26. (countable, uncountable)A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.

    “I then walked to Cochrane's & got an order on Sir Charles Asgill for my money.”

verb

1. (transitive)To set in some sort of order.

   “We need to order them alphabetically.”

2. (transitive)To arrange, set in proper order.

   “The books in the shelf need ordering.”

3. (transitive)To issue a command to; to charge.

   “to order troops to advance”

   “He ordered me to leave.”

   “I hate being ordered around by my co-workers.”

   “The "D.N.B." wrote of one Railway Member that "he made himself personally acquainted with the working of the new systems of railroads, and with more foresight than his neighbours, he welcomed railways on his estate when other landowners were ordering their gamekeepers to warn off the surveyors or to put an end to their operations by force."”

4. (transitive)To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.

   “You can now order most products to be delivered to your home.”

   “to order groceries”

   “to order food from a restaurant”

5. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

   “persons presented to be ordered deacons”

name

1. The Order of the Arrow.