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Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
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A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
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The state of being well arranged.
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The house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
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Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
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to preserve order in a community or an assembly
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A command.
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A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
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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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St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537.
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An association of knights.
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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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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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A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
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Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales.
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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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talent of a high order
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(chiefly plural) An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry.
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to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry
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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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The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
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A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
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a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter
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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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The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set.
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(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).
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The number of vertices in a graph.
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A partially ordered set.
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The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.
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The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.
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A quadratic polynomial, a x^2 + b x + c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2.
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A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.