Word: order Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der. Proto-Italic *ordōder. Latin ōrdinem Old French ordneder. Middle English ordre English order From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ordō (“to arrange”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂or-d-, from *h₂er-. Related to Latin ōrdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”). In sense “request for purchase”, compare bespoke. Doublet of ordo. Compare typologically Russian поря́док (porjádok) (akin to ряд (rjad)). Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.də/, /ˈoɹ.dɚ/, [ˈoɹ.ɾɚ], /ˈoː.də/, [ˈoː.ɾə] 1. Arrangement, disposition, or sequence. Labels: countable Example: put the children in age order Example: It's arranged in order of frequency 2. A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence. Labels: countable Example: 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. Example: 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. 3. The state of being well arranged. Labels: uncountable Example: The house is in order; the machinery is out of order. 4. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet. Labels: countable Example: to preserve order in a community or an assembly Example: Order in the court! 5. A command. Labels: countable Example: give an order Example: his inability to follow orders 6. A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods. Labels: countable Example: make an order Example: receive an online order for the new range of sunglasses 7. A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles. Labels: countable Example: St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537. 8. An association of knights. Labels: countable Example: the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath. 9. Any group of people with common interests. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. 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. Labels: countable Example: 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. A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank. Labels: countable Example: The magnolia and nutmeg families belong to the order Magnoliales. Example: 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. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the higher or lower orders of society Example: talent of a high order 13. An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. Example: to take orders or holy orders means to be ordained a deacon or priest 14. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable 15. The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order. Labels: countable, uncountable 16. Scale: size or scope. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: on another order 17. A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter 18. The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products. Labels: countable, uncountable 19. The number of elements contained within (the given object); formally, the cardinality (of the given object). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. Example: 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. 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). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. Example: 1999, A. Ehrenfeucht, T. Harju, G. Rozenberg, The Theory of 2-structures, World Scientific, page 15, If Δ is a finite group, its cardinality is called the order of Δ. The order of an element a∈Δ is defined as the smallest nonnegative integer n such that aⁿ=1_Δ. The second case of the following result is known as Cauchy's theorem. Theorem 1.10 Let Δ be a finite group. (i) The order of an element a∈Δ divides the order |Δ| of the group. (ii) If a prime number p divides |Δ|, then there exists an element a∈Δ of order p. 21. The number of vertices in the graph (i.e. the set-theoretic order of the set of vertices of the graph). Labels: countable, uncountable 22. A partially ordered set. Labels: countable, uncountable 23. The relation with which a partially ordered set is equipped. Labels: countable, uncountable 24. The sum of the exponents of the variables involved in the expression. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The monomial x²ʸ³ᶻ is of order 2#43;3#43;1#61;6. 25. The order of the leading monomial; (equivalently) the largest power of the variable involved in the given expression. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The quadratic polynomial ax²#43;bx#43;c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2 when a is nonzero. 26. A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I then walked to Cochrane's & got an order on Sir Charles Asgill for my money.