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(countable) Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
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(countable) A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
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(uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
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(countable) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
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(countable) A command.
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(countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
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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.
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(countable) An association of knights.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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(Christianity) An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.
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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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(sciences, engineering, logic) Scale: size or scope.
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(electronics) A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
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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, of a set or algebraic structure) The number of elements contained within (the given object); formally, the cardinality (of the given object).
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(group theory, of an element g of a group G) 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).
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(graph theory, of a graph) The number of vertices in the graph (i.e. the set-theoretic order of the set of vertices of the graph).
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(order theory) A partially ordered set.
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(order theory) The relation with which a partially ordered set is equipped.
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(algebra, of a monomial) The sum of the exponents of the variables involved in the expression.
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(algebra, of a polynomial in one variable) The order of the leading monomial; (equivalently) the largest power of the variable involved in the given expression.
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(finance) A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.