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order | gradient |

As nouns the difference between order and gradient

is that order is , command while gradient is gradient.

order

English

(wikipedia order)

Alternative forms

* ordre (obsolete)

Noun

  • (uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
  • (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
  • The house is in order'''; the machinery is out of '''order .
  • Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
  • to preserve order in a community or an assembly
  • (countable) A command.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=30 citation , passage=It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.}}
  • (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=An internet of airborne things, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation
  • , passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer.}}
  • (countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles; as, the Jesuit Order.
  • (countable) An association of knights; as, the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.
  • any group of people with common interests.
  • (countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
  • (countable, biology, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katie L. Burke
  • , title= In the News , volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}
  • 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.
  • the higher or lower orders of society
    talent of a high order
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • They are in equal order to their several ends.
  • * Granville
  • Various orders various ensigns bear.
  • * Hawthorne
  • which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime.
  • An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural.
  • to take orders''', or to take '''holy orders , that is, to enter some grade of the ministry
  • (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing.
  • (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
  • (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.
  • (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
  • (mathematics) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.
  • (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
  • (order theory) A partially ordered set.
  • (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partially ordered set.
  • (mathematics) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.
  • Quotations

    * 1611 — 1:1 *: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us... * Donald Knuth. Volume 3: ''Sorting and Searching, Addison-Wesley, 1973, chapter 8: *: Since only two of our tape drives were in working order', I was '''ordered''' to '''order''' more tape units in short '''order''', in '''order''' to '''order''' the data several ' orders of magnitude faster.

    Antonyms

    * chaos

    Derived terms

    * alphabetical order * antisocial behaviour order * Anton Piller order * apple-pie order * back-to-work order * bottom order * court order * doctor's orders * Doric order * executive order * first order stream * fraternal birth order * gagging order * Groceries Order * in order / in order to * in short order * infra-order * interim order * last orders * law-and-order * Mary Bell order * mendicant order * middle order * moral order * New World Order * on the order of * order in council * Order of Australia * order of magnitude * order of operations * order of precedence * order of the day * order stream * out of order * partial order * pecking order * place an order * put one's house in order * purchase order * religious order * restraining order * second order stream * short order * standing order * stop-loss order * superorder * tall order * third order stream * total order * well-order * working order * z-order

    See also

    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To set in some sort of order.
  • To arrange, set in proper order.
  • To issue a command to.
  • to order troops to advance
  • To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
  • to order groceries
  • To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
  • * Book of Common Prayer
  • persons presented to be ordered deacons
    Synonyms
    * (arrange into some sort of order) sort, rank

    Derived terms

    * just what the doctor ordered * made-to-order * mail-order * order of magnitude * order out * well-order

    Statistics

    *

    gradient

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (slope) (wikipedia gradient)
  • A slope or incline.
  • A rate of inclination or declination of a slope.
  • (calculus) Of a function y'' = ''f''(''x'') or the graph of such a function, the rate of change of ''y'' with respect to ''x''
    that is, the amount by which ''y'' changes for a certain (often unit) change in ''x

    equivalently, the inclination to the X axis of the tangent to the curve of the graph.
  • (science) The rate at which a physical quantity increases or decreases relative to change in a given variable, especially distance.
  • (analysis) A differential operator that maps each point of a scalar field to a vector pointed in the direction of the greatest rate of change of the scalar. Notation for a scalar field ?: ∇φ
  • Synonyms

    * (slope) hill, incline, ramp, slope * (in calculus) slope (of a line )

    Derived terms

    * gradient wind * ruling gradient * supergradient * temperature gradient

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Moving by steps; walking.
  • gradient automata
    (Wilkins)
  • Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination.
  • the gradient line of a railroad
  • Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.
  • Anagrams

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