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Order
Order
is the opposite of
anarchy
and
chaos
. It is often used in the phrase
law and order
.
Legal and military meanings
Court order
Executive order
General order
Standing order
Scientific meanings
Order (biology)
In
computing
,
canonical order
In
information processing
, order is a measure of the number of
objects
or
sub-systems
in a
system
as seen by an
observer
.
Mathematical meanings
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
Big O notation
(mathematical), aka the order of an
algorithm
Miscellaneous meanings
Order (philosophy)
Order (business)
Order (religious)
Holy Orders
Order (military)
Architectonic orders: see
classical orders
Ordered sets of
pitches
or
pitch classes
such as a
tone row
, see the mathematical meaning above.
Order (decoration)
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