order

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English

Alternative forms

• ordre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ordō (“to arrange”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂or-d-, from *h₂er-.

Related to Latin ōrdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”). In sense “request for purchase”, compare bespoke. Doublet of ordo.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːdə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹdɚ/, [ˈɔɹɾɚ]
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːdə(r)/
• Hyphenation: or‧der
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

Noun

order (countable and uncountable, plural orders)

1. (countable) Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

2. (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.
3. (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.

4. (countable) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.

6. (countable) A command.
7. (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
8. (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.

9. (countable) An association of knights.

10. Any group of people with common interests.
11. (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.
12. (countable, biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.

13. 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.
14. (Christianity) An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.

15. (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.

    Hyponyms: Corinthian order, Doric order, Ionic order

16. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
17. (electronics) A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.

18. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
19. (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.
21. (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 ${displaystyle \Delta }$ is a finite group, its cardinality is called the order of ${displaystyle \Delta }$. The order of an element ${displaystyle a\in \Delta }$ is defined as the smallest nonnegative integer ${displaystyle n}$ such that ${displaystyle a^=1_{Delta }}$. The second case of the following result is known as Cauchy's theorem.

      Theorem 1.10 Let ${displaystyle \Delta }$ be a finite group.

      (i) The order of an element ${displaystyle a\in \Delta }$ divides the order ${displaystyle |\Delta |}$ of the group.

      (ii) If a prime number ${displaystyle p}$ divides ${displaystyle |\Delta |}$, then there exists an element ${displaystyle a\in \Delta }$ of order ${displaystyle p}$.

    • 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.

22. (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).
23. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
24. (order theory) The relation with which a partially ordered set is equipped.
25. (algebra, of a monomial) The sum of the exponents of the variables involved in the expression.

26. (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.

    Synonym: degree

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

Quotations

• 1973, Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and Searching, Addison-Wesley, chapter 8:

  Since only two of our tape drives were in working order, I was ordered to order more tape units in short order, in order to order the data several orders of magnitude faster.

Synonyms

• (taxonomy): ordo
• (group): association, brotherhood, league, sisterhood, society

Antonyms

• chaos, disorder

Hypernyms

• denomination

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → Swahili: oda

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of order theory

Further reading

• order on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Order (group theory) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cauchy's theorem (group theory) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lagrange's theorem (group theory) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (taxonomy): Taxonomic rank on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• order on Wikiquote.Wikiquote

Verb

order (third-person singular simple present orders, present participle ordering, simple past and past participle ordered)

1. (transitive) To set in some sort of order.

2. (transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.

3. (transitive) To issue a command to.

4. (transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.

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

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (arrange into some sort of order): sort, rank
• (issue a command): command

Derived terms

Related terms

• ordain
• orderly
• ordinal
• ordinary

Translations

References

• “order”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Doerr, Roder, derro, ordre

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ordre, from Old French ordre, from Latin ordo. Doublet of orde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔr.dər/
• Hyphenation: or‧der

Noun

order m or f or n (plural orders)

1. order (command)
2. order (request for product or service)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Negerhollands: order
• → Indonesian: order
• → Papiamentu: òrdu, order

Further reading

• “order” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

German

Verb

order

1. inflection of ordern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch order, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”). Doublet of orde and ordo.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈɔrdər/ [ˈɔr.dər]
• Syllabification: or‧der

Noun

ordêr

1. order (command)

   Synonym: pesan

2. (uncommon) order (request for some product or service)

   Synonyms: pesanan, orderan

Verb

ordêr (active mengorder, passive diorder)

1. to order (to request some product or service)

   Synonym: pesan

2. (uncommon) to order (to issue a command)

   Synonym: pesan

Derived terms

Further reading

• “order” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English order.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔr.dɛr/
• Rhymes: -ɔrdɛr
• Syllabification: or‧der

Noun

order m inan (diminutive orderek, augmentative orderzysko, related adjective orderowy)

1. order (decoration awarded by government or other authority)

   Hypernym: odznaczenie

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• order in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• order in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• order in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Order or Russian ордер (order).

Noun

order n (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) order

Declension

References

• order in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French ordre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔrdɛr/

Noun

order c

1. an order (command)
2. an order (request for some product or service – often of a larger or more involved order)

Usage notes

An order at a restaurant or from an online store (on a smaller scale) or the like is a beställning.

Declension

Hyponyms

Derived terms

See also

• orden

References

• order in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• order in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• order in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• roder