Noun

(uncountable) The quality of being organized.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}

(uncountable) The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.

(countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.

(countable) A group of people consciously cooperating.

(baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.

Noun

(uncountable) The state of being allied.

matrimonial alliances'''; an '''alliance between church and state, or between two countries

(countable) The act of allying or uniting.

(countable) A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.

(countable) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.

* C. J. Smith

the alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel

* Mansel

the alliance between logic and metaphysics

(with the definite article) The persons or parties allied.

(Udall)