Order - Definition
Order
is the opposite of
anarchy
and
chaos
. It is often used in the phrase
law and order
.
Legal and military meanings
Court order
Executive order
General order
Standing order
Scientific meanings
Order (biology)
In
computing
,
canonical order
In
information processing
, order is a measure of the number of
objects
or
sub-systems
in a
system
as seen by an
observer
.
Mathematical meanings
Order of an
ordered set
; see also
order theory
,
total order
,
total preorder
and
partial order
Order of a
group
or its elements. See
order (group theory)
.
Order of an element in some modulus, see
multiplicative order
Order of a
differential equation
Big O notation
(mathematical), aka the order of an
algorithm
Orders of magnitude
are factors of ten
Miscellaneous meanings
Order (philosophy)
Order (business)
Order (religious)
Holy Orders
Order (military)
Architectonic orders: see
classical orders
Ordered sets of
pitches
or
pitch classes
such as a
tone row
, see the mathematical meaning above.
Order (decoration)
"The Order"
The Order
(AKA Bruders Schweigen or Silent Brotherhood) was an
American
revolutionary
National Socialist
group.
The Order
is a
2003
film
.
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page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
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