Order

Order (from Latin ordo "row, rank, series, arrangement", Old French ordre from the Latin accusative, ordinem, attested in English from the 1220s). The word conveys a notion of "a system of parts subject to certain uniform, established ranks or proportions", an idea very central to scholastic thought, and it was used in a wide range of contexts, from architecture to angels.

Related Topics:
Latin - Old French - 1220s - Scholastic

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• The monastic orders, originating with Anthony the Great and Benedict of Nursia from ca. 300 (see also Holy Orders)
• based on these, the military orders of the crusades
• based on these in turn, the various chivalric orders established since the 14th century.
• from these, the purely honorary decorative orders
• In the sense of command, in legal and military contexts:
• Court order
• Executive order
• General order
• Standing order
• Direct order
• in the sense of "sequence, hierarchy" in scientific classification
• Order (biology)
• social order
• Order of reaction
• In mathematics:
• In a sequence, one item comes first, another second, another third, etc.; these ordinal numbers specify the order in which the items appear. Hence the next meaning of this word:
• Order of an ordered set; see also order theory, total order, total preorder and partial order
• Order of a group or its elements. See order (group theory).
• Order of an element in some modulus, see multiplicative order
• Order of a differential equation
• Order of a root of a polynomial
• Big O notation (mathematical), aka the order of an algorithm
• Orders of magnitude are factors of ten
• in computer science:
• canonical order
• Order (schema) The number of defining symbols in a schema.
• Miscellaneous meanings
• Collating order
• Order (philosophy)
• Order (business)
• Architectonic orders: see classical order
• Ordered sets of pitches or pitch classes such as a tone row, see the mathematical meaning above.
• "The Order"
• The Order (AKA Bruders Schweigen or Silent Brotherhood) was an American revolutionary National Socialist group.
• The Order is a 2003 film.
 
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