Wiki: Order - upcScavenger

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

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

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
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

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

Science and technology

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
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 , 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
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

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

Order

Account

Navigation

Statistics