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a taxon at that rank.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales."},{"definition":"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 distinct character, kind, or sort.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"talent of a high order"},{"definition":"(chiefly plural) An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry"},{"definition":"The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (since the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural design.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter"},{"definition":"The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(of an element of a group) For given group G and element g ∈ G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gn = e, where e is the identity element of G; if no such number exists, the element is said to be of infinite order (or sometimes zero order).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The number of vertices in a graph.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A partially ordered set.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"A quadratic polynomial, a x^2 + b x + c, is said to be of order (or degree) 2."},{"definition":"A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; 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