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orders

/ˈɔːdəz/ /ˈɔɹdɚz/

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Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

Examples :

"The teacher liked to keep the desks in neat orders, with each row perfectly aligned. "

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A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

Examples :

"The children lined up in height orders for the class photo, from shortest to tallest. "

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The state of being well arranged.

Examples :

"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.

Examples :

"to preserve order in a community or an assembly"

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Examples :

"The soldier followed the general's orders without question. "

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

Examples :

"The restaurant's online orders are increasing rapidly. "

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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.

Examples :

"St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537."

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An association of knights.

Examples :

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

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Any group of people with common interests.

Examples :

"Monks living in monasteries often belong to different religious orders, such as the Benedictines or Franciscans. "

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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.

Examples :

"The president presented the retiring general with several prestigious orders for his decades of dedicated service to the country. "

government royal nation service achievement heraldry history tradition society

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A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.

Examples :

"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.

Examples :

"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.

Examples :

"to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry"

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Examples :

"The architect studied the different orders of ancient Greek temples, carefully noting the details of the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian columns. "

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

Examples :

"The team's orders for the cricket match were: Smith, Jones, Brown, and Williams. "

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A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.

Examples :

"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.

Examples :

"In chemical kinetics, understanding the orders of a reaction helps scientists predict how quickly a reaction will occur as reactant concentrations change. "

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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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"The mathematics class learned how to calculate the orders of different sets of numbers. "

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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).

Examples :

"In group theory, the element 'a' has orders if repeated multiplication eventually results in the identity element. "

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The number of vertices in a graph.

Examples :

""To draw this graph, we need to know the orders; since it has five vertices, its orders are five." "

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A partially ordered set.

Examples :

"The restaurant's menu shows several orders that are only partially related: appetizers, main courses, and desserts, but you don't have to eat them in that specific sequence, so the menu presents several partial orders. "

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The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.

Examples :

"The student's assigned readings had different orders of difficulty; some were easy, some were hard, and some couldn't be compared without more instruction. "

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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.

Examples :

"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.

Examples :

"My grandmother sent me orders to help pay for books when I started college. "

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To set in some sort of order.

Examples :

"The librarian orders the books on the shelf by author's last name. "

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To arrange, set in proper order.

Examples :

"She carefully orders the books on her shelf by color. "

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To issue a command to.

Examples :

"He ordered me to leave."

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To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.

Examples :

"to order groceries"

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To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

Examples :

"The bishop orders new priests at the cathedral every spring. "

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