caliber vs order

caliber

noun
  • Capacity or compass of mind. 

  • A nominal name for a cartridge type, which may not exactly indicate its true size and may include other measurements such as cartridge length or black powder capacity. Eg 7.62×39 or 38.40. 

  • The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet, a projectile, or a column. 

  • Relative size, importance, magnitude. 

  • Diameter of the bore of a firearm, typically measured between opposite lands. 

  • Unit of measure used to express the length of the bore of a weapon. The number of calibres is determined by dividing the length of the bore of the weapon, from the breech face of the tube to the muzzle, by the diameter of its bore. A gun tube the bore of which is 40 feet (480 inches) long and 12 inches in diameter is said to be 40 calibers long. 

  • Movement of a timepiece. 

order

noun
  • The state of being well arranged. 

  • A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles. 

  • The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products. 

  • 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. 

  • A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence. 

  • A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods. 

  • 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. 

  • The number of vertices in a graph. 

  • The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set. 

  • The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order. 

  • A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order. 

  • An association of knights. 

  • Arrangement, disposition, or sequence. 

  • Any group of people with common interests. 

  • 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. 

  • A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank. 

  • Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet. 

  • A command. 

  • An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders. 

  • A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc. 

  • 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). 

  • A partially ordered set. 

  • The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set. 

  • The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial. 

verb
  • To arrange, set in proper order. 

  • To issue a command to. 

  • To set in some sort of order. 

  • To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry. 

  • To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order. 

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