ORDERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ordering mean? 

• ORDERING (noun)
  The noun ORDERING has 2 senses:

1. logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements

2. the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement

  Familiarity information: ORDERING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

order; ordering; ordination

Context example:

we shall consider these questions in the inverse order of their presentation

Hypernyms ("ordering" is a kind of...):

arrangement (an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ordering"):

bacteria order (an order of bacteria)

word order (the order of words in a text)

genetic code (the ordering of nucleotides in DNA molecules that carries the genetic information in living cells)

genome (the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism)

series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)

Derivation:

order (arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of putting things in a sequential arrangement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

order; ordering

Context example:

there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list

Hypernyms ("ordering" is a kind of...):

organisation; organization (the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ordering"):

rank order (an arrangement according to rank)

grading; scaling (the act of arranging in a graduated series)

sequence; succession (the action of following in order)

layout (the act of laying out (as by making plans for something))

alphabetisation; alphabetization (the act of putting in alphabetical order)

Derivation:

order (place in a certain order)

order (bring order to or into)

order (assign a rank or rating to)

 Context examples 

Fashions changed in trading, and he knew he would have to wait till he reached Tahiti before ordering his trade-goods.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A number that identifies the ordering relations (in time, space, etc.) in a set of findings.

(Findings About Events or Interventions Sequence Number, NCI Thesaurus)

Following the fourth position in an ordering or series; coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position.

(Fifth, NCI Thesaurus)

An integer specifying the relative sequential or temporal ordering of this epoch among other similar epochs in a study.

(Epoch Sequence Number, NCI Thesaurus)

An integer specifying the relative sequential or temporal ordering of this relationship among other similar relationships having the same source.

(Defined Composition Relationship Sequence Number, NCI Thesaurus)

A number that identifies the ordering relations (in time, space, etc.) in a set of drug accountability data.

(Drug Accountability Sequence Number, NCI Thesaurus)

A number that identifies the ordering relations (in time, space, etc.) in a set of clinical events.

(Clinical Events Sequence Number, NCI Thesaurus)

As usual Van Helsing had thought ahead of everyone else, and was prepared with an exact ordering of our work.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A number that identifies the ordering relations (in time, space, etc.) in a set of pharmacokinetic parameters.

(Pharmacokinetic Parameter Sequence Number, NCI Thesaurus)

Right easy were the Montacutes of their Castle of Twynham, and little had they to dread from roving galley or French squadron, while Lady Mary Loring had the ordering of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)