English Dictionary

order

/ˈɔːdə/

noun

(countable) Arrangement, disposition, or sequence. / (countable) A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence. / (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.

I need to place an order for a new laptop.

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(countable) Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

put the children in age order

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(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.

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(uncountable) The state of being well arranged.

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

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

to preserve order in a community or an assembly

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(countable) A command.

give an order

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

make an order

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(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.

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(countable) An association of knights.

the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.

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Any group of people with common interests.

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(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.

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.

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

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.

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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

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(Christianity) 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.

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(architecture) 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.

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(cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.

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(electronics) 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

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(chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.

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(set theory) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set.

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.

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(group theory, of an element of a group) For given group G and element g ∈ G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gⁿ = e, where e is the identity element of G; if no such number 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= mathit GL(d,q) on average using O(d³ mathsf logq) field operations, assuming that qⁱ-1 has been factorised for i<d.

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(graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.

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(order theory) A partially ordered set.

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(order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.

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(algebra) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.

A quadratic polynomial, ax²+bx+c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2.

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(finance) 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.