Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word ORDER

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Definitions of ORDER

1. Any group of people with common interests.
2. 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.
3. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
4. (countable) Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
5. (countable) A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
6. (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
7. (countable) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
8. (countable) A command.
9. (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
10. (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.
11. (countable) An association of knights.
12. (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.
13. (countable, biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
14. (Christianity) An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially) holy orders.
15. (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.
16. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
17. (electronics) A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
18. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
19. (set theory) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set.
20. (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).
21. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
22. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
23. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.
24. (algebra) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.
25. (finance) A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.
26. (transitive) To set in some sort of order.
27. (transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.
28. (transitive) To issue a command to.
29. (transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
30. (scouting) The Order of the Arrow.

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