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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 group or division of men in the same social or other position; also, a distinct character, kind, or sort; as, the higher or lower orders of society; talent of a high order.
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Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the same as the degree of its equation.
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To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
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In biology, a category that's part of the scientific system for grouping together related plants, animals and other organisms (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species). Order is the category that ranks below a class and above a family.
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Taxonomic Order P Q R S
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A taxonomic category ranking below a class and above a family.
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Level of taxonomy above Family and below Class. For birds, Order names end in -iformes. For example, Columbiformes which includes doves, pigeons, dodos, and solitaires.
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Animals in a particular class are subdivided into orders, though sometimes they may first be subdivided into sub or infra-classes. Within orders, animals can be divided more specifically into sub-orders or infra-orders.
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In taxonomy, the category below the class and above the family; a group of related, similar families.
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Taxonomic level below class that consists of related families. Turtles are in the order Chelonia.
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in animal and plant classification, a subdivision of a class or subclass containing a group of related families
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A group in the classification scheme that contains many families.
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a category in the hierarchy of classification. This hierarchy is as follows: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.
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taxonomic level in the Linnaean sequence that is above family but below class. One or more orders are included in a class eg Carnivora (carnivorous mammals) and Strigiformes (owls).
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(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families
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a classification of animals that falls between class and family
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a warrant within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, as long as the purpose of the surveillance is to obtain foreign intelligence, as that term is defined in FISA itself
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a repetitive pattern.
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the fourth level used in biological classification.
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The fourth group that scientists classify living things into. Each class is split into orders. Example: The Rodent Order is in the Mammal Class.
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Category in animal and plant classification that is above the family and below the class; group of families that share similar characteristics. (Scientific names of insect orders end in -a).
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' r) In the scientific system of classification (taxonomy), order is the division between class and family.
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One of the primary divisions of the classification system. Consists of several to many families.
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The fourth highest main level of classification.
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a taxonomic group subordinate to class; group of similar families
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Level of scientific classification; below Class and above Family
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one of the primary taxonomic divisions below Class level and above Family level. In Class Insecta, the division of Order was originally based on wing structure with ordinal names usually ending in -ptera e.g. Order Diptera.
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A major category in the taxonomic hierarchy, usually comprised of groups of families thought to possess a degree of phylogenetic unity. Groups of similar orders are place in classes. The Latin names of order usually end with the suffix –ales.
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a grouping of similar families.
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a system of arrangement, classification or coordination of things by sequence pattern - an arrangement or repetition of lines or shapes that form a design
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In the taxonomic hierarchy, a subdivision of a class (e.g. Insecta) that includes one or more related families. The order to which grasshoppers, katydids, crickets and their kin belong is the Orthoptera.
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a taxonomic ranking between the rankings of class and family. All organisms within an order will share similar characteristics (see also Genus)
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gameplay] as a verb: One orders charmed creatures ("charmies") and pets to do one's bidding. Example: order dog bark would order your pet dog to do the "bark" social. as a noun: An order is one's specialty in one's class. Once a player has achieved level 10 in their base class, then can become an order. This choice is permanent, and guides the player during development by bonuses (usually 2) to some things, and penalties to others (usually 1). Example: become knight would allow a fighter to become a member of the order of knights.
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a taxonomic grouping of families believed to be closely related (sometimes a single family with no apparent close relatives); the major taxonomic rank between family and class.
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A category of taxonomic classification ranking above the family and below the class.
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authoritative command, state of efficiency or neatness, procedure, classification
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A very large group used in classification, it contains a number of closely related families.
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A group of related or similar organisms. An order contains one or more families. A group of similar orders forms a class.
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In the context of sensemaking, order refers to an organization or structure of information. For example, an order might be an organization of elements into disjoint or overlapping classes, arrangement into a taxonomy, an organization in terms of objects and attributes, organization in terms of a table, or a precedence relation. The term order is more general than the term ordering. See also structuring.
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One of the categories of taxonomy by which animals are hierarchically classified. It ranks above "family" and below "class".
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1. A purchase of materials or the act of making the purchase (i.e. ordering a shipment of lumber). 2. A level of classification. 3. Organization. Neatness.
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See "classification."
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The fourth largest categorical level of biological taxonomy, ranking below kingdom, phylum and class, and above family, genus and species
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In scientific classification used in biology, the order (Latin: ordo, plural ordines) is a rank between class and family (termed a taxon at that rank). The superorder is a rank between class and order.
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