Definition of "order" in Anglais

noun

(countable) Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
- put the children in age order
- It's arranged in order of frequency
(countable) A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
- 1897, T. L. Heath (translator), Eutocius of Ascalon, Extract from a commentary by Eutocius, quoted in 1897 [CUP], T. L. Heath (editor), The Works of Archimedes, 2002, Dover, unnumbered page, His attempt I shall also give in its order.
(uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
- The house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
(countable) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
- to preserve order in a community or an assembly
- Order in the court!
(countable) A command.
- give an order
- his inability to follow orders
(countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
- make an order
- receive an online order for the new range of sunglasses
- I ordered a burger and some fries.
(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.
- St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537.
(countable) An association of knights.
- the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
Any group of people with common interests.
(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.
(countable, biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
- The magnolia and nutmeg families belong to the order Magnoliales.
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.
- the higher or lower orders of society
- talent of a high order
(Christianity) An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.
- There have been many major and minor orders in the history of Christianity: the order of virgins, of deacons, priests, lectors, acolytes, porters, catechists, widows, etc.

to take orders or holy orders means to be ordained a deacon or priest

(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.

(sciences, engineering, logic) Scale: size or scope.

on another order

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

a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter

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

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

1911 [Cambridge University Press], William Burnside, Theory of Groups of Finite Order, 2nd Edition, Reprint, Dover (Dover Phoenix), 2004, page 222, In this case, the conjugate set contains n(n − 1)/x(x − 1) distinct sub-groups of order m, and H is therefore self-conjugate in a group K of order x(x − l)m.

(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).

1999, A. Ehrenfeucht, T. Harju, G. Rozenberg, The Theory of 2-structures, World Scientific, page 15, If Δ is a finite group, its cardinality is called the order of Δ. The order of an element a∈Δ is defined as the smallest nonnegative integer n such that aⁿ=1_Δ. The second case of the following result is known as Cauchy's theorem. Theorem 1.10 Let Δ be a finite group. (i) The order of an element a∈Δ divides the order |Δ| of the group. (ii) If a prime number p divides |Δ|, then there exists an element a∈Δ of order p.
2010, A. R. Vasishta, A. K. Vasishta, Modern Algebra, Krishna Prakashan Media, 60th Edition, page 180, Since in a finite group the order of an element must be a divisor of the order of the group, therefore o (a) cannot be 3 and so we must have o (a)=4=the order of the group G.

(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).

(order theory) A partially ordered set.

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

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

The monomial x²ʸ³ᶻ is of order 2#43;3#43;1#61;6.

(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.

The quadratic polynomial ax²#43;bx#43;c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2 when a is nonzero.

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

verb

(transitive) To set in some sort of order.
- We need to order them alphabetically.
(transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.
- The books in the shelf need ordering.
(transitive) To issue a command to; to charge.
- to order troops to advance
- He ordered me to leave.
- I hate being ordered around by my co-workers.
(transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
- You can now order most products to be delivered to your home.
- to order groceries
- to order food from a restaurant
To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.