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order
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noun
  1. (uncountable) arrangement, Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
  2. (uncountable) Good arrangement; opposite to chaos.
  3. (countable) A command.
  4. (countable) A request for some product or service.
  5. (countable) A religious group.
  6. (context, countable, biology, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank
Magnolias belong to the Magnoliales.
  1. (cricket) The sequence in which a side"s batsmen bat; the batting order.
  2. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit"s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
    • a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter.
      1. (chem) A number of a chemical reaction
    • order of a reaction
      1. (graphtheory) a number of vertices in a graph
      2. (context, order theory) A partially ordered set.
verb
  1. To set in (any) order (1).
  2. To set in (a good) order (2).
  3. To issue a command.
  4. To request some product or service.
organism
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noun
  1. (biology) A discrete and complete living thing (creature, plant or any other biota) that is composed of organs.
oriental
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noun (pl. orientals)
  1. A person from the Orient, or with ancestry from the Orient.
Note: this term is considered objectionable in American English.
adjective (less commonly Oriental)
  1. of or relating to the Orient or Asia, but most commonly to the Far East.
Note: this term is considered objectionable in American English.
  1. (zoí¶logy), capitalized: a zoí¶geographical region of southeast Asia.
  2. relating to orient lustre in a pearl
ornithology
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noun
  1. The branch of zoology that deals with the scientific study of birds.

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