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Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

The state of being well arranged.

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

(command)A command.

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

A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles.

An association of knights.

Any group of people with common interests.

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.

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

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.

(Christianity) An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (when plural) holy orders.

(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.

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

(size or scope) (logic) Scale: size or scope.

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

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

(of a set or algebraic structure) The number of elements contained within (''the given object''); ''formally'', the cardinality (''of the given object'').

(groupth)(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)''.

(of a graph) The number of vertices in the graph (''i.e. the set-theoretic order of the set of vertices of the graph'').

(order theory) A partially ordered set.

(order theory) The relation with which a partially ordered set is equipped.

(of a monomial) The sum of the exponents of the variables involved in the expression.

(of a polynomial in one variable) The order of the leading monomial; (''equivalently'') the largest power of the variable involved in the given expression. +

(finance) A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare (money order), (postal order).

To set in some sort of order.

To arrange, set in proper order.

To issue a command to; to charge.

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

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