Meaning

• Noun

  1. Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
  2. A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
  3. The state of being well arranged.
  4. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
  5. A command.
  6. A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
  7. A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles.
  8. An association of knights.
  9. Any group of people with common interests.
  10. 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.
  11. A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
  12. 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.
  13. An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.
  14. 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.
  15. The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
  16. A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
  17. The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
  18. The number of elements contained within (the given object); formally, the cardinality (of the given object).
  19. 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).
  20. The number of vertices in the graph (i.e. the set-theoretic order of the set of vertices of the graph).
  21. A partially ordered set.
  22. The relation with which a partially ordered set is equipped.
  23. The sum of the exponents of the variables involved in the expression.
  24. The order of the leading monomial; (equivalently) the largest power of the variable involved in the given expression.
  25. A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.

• Verb