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 +“Your [[order]] is [[meaningless]], my [[chaos]] is [[Significance|significant]].” — [[Nathanael West]]
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 +[[Image:Flammarion engraving.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Flammarion engraving]]'', a wood engraving by an unknown artist, so named because its first documented appearance is in Camille Flammarion's 1888 book ''L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire'' ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology").]]
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-*[[Social order]], a concept used in sociology, history and other social sciences+'''Order''' is the opposite of [[disorder]]. It may refer to:
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 +==Sequencing==
 +*An arrangement of items in [[sequence]]
 +*The result of [[enumeration]] of a set of items
 +*[[Collation]], the sequencing and ordering of text
 +**[[Alphabetical order]]
 +*[[Order of precedence]]
 +*A mathematical structure modeling sequenced items, dealt with in [[order theory]]
 + 
 +==Philosophy==
 +* [[Natural order (philosophy)]]
 +* [[Implicate and explicate order according to David Bohm]]
 + 
 +==Science and mathematics==
 +*[[Order (mathematics)]], various meanings
 +*[[Order (biology)]], a rank between class and family, or a taxon at that rank
 +*Order (optics), the category number of lighthouse [[Fresnel lens]]es, defining size and focal length
 +*[[Order and disorder (physics)]], measured by an order parameter or more generally by entropy
 +*Ordered system or universe, the [[cosmos]], antithetical concept of [[chaos]]
 +*Order of hierarchical complexity, quantified by the [[Model of Hierarchical Complexity]], the ordinal complexity of tasks that are addressed
 +*[[Order of reaction]], a concept of chemical kinetics
 +*[[Social order]] in sociology, history and other social sciences, referring to the conduct of society
 +**[[World order (disambiguation)]], including the concept of a world government
 +*[[Topological order]] in quantum mechanics, an organized quantum state
 + 
 +==Computer science==
 +*''Order of computation'', the [[computational complexity]] of an algorithm
 +*[[Canonical order (disambiguation)]], the order of elements that obeys a certain set of rules or specifications
 +*[[Z-order]], which graphics cover up others on computer screens
 + 
 +==Electronics and telecommunications==
 +*[[First-order hold]] in signal processing
 +*[[Modulation order]], the number of different symbols that can be sent using a given modulation
 +*The polynomial order of a [[Filter (signal processing)]] transfer function
 + 
 +==Economics and commerce==
 +*[[Order (business)]], an instruction from a customer to buy
 +*[[Order (exchange)]], customer's instruction to a stock broker
 +*[[Money order]]
 +*[[Work order]]
 + 
 +==Legal, political, and military==
 +*[[Court order]], made by a judge, e.g. a restraining order
 +*[[Executive order (disambiguation)]], issued by the executive branch of government
 +*[[General order]], a published directive from a commander
 +**[[Standing order (disambiguation)]], a general order of indefinite duration, and similar ongoing rules in a parliament
 +*[[Law and order (politics)]]
 +*[[Military command]]
 +*[[Tactical formation]], an arrangement or deployment of moving military forces
 +*[[Superior orders]]
 + 
 +==Architecture and urban planning==
 +*Architectonic orders: see [[classical order]]
 +*[[Public order]], a concept in urban planning
 + 
 +==Honors==
 +*[[Order (honour)]], medal or award
 + 
 +==Religious, chivalric, fraternal, and ideological==
 +*[[The Order (group)]], an underground American neo-Nazi organization active in 1983 and 1984
 +*[[Chivalric order]], established since the 14th century
 +*[[Fraternal order]]
 +*[[Religious order]]
 +*[[Monastic order]], established circa 300 AD
 +*[[Military order]], established in the crusades
 +*[[Tariqa]] or Sufi Order
 +*[[Holy Orders]], the rite or sacrament in which clergy are ordained
 +*[[Order of Mass]], the set of texts of the Roman Catholic Church Latin Rite Mass that are generally invariable
 + 
 +==Media and entertainment==
 +*[[Order (album)|''Order'' (album)]], 2009 album by German band Maroon
 +*[[Orders (film)|''Orders'' (film)]], a 1974 film by Canadian filmmaker, Michel Brault
 + 
 +==See also==
 +*[[Collation (disambiguation)]]
 +*[[Coordination (disambiguation)]]
 +*[[Ordinal (disambiguation)]]
 +*[[Ordinate]] in mathematics, the y element of an ordered pair (x, y)
 +*[[Ordination]], process by which individuals are consecrated
 +*[[Subordinate]]
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“Your order is meaningless, my chaos is significant.” — Nathanael West

Flammarion engraving, a wood engraving by an unknown artist, so named because its first documented appearance is in Camille Flammarion's 1888 book L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology").
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Legal, political, and military

Architecture and urban planning

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Religious, chivalric, fraternal, and ideological

Media and entertainment

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