ORDERING
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)
Meaning:
Logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
ordering; ordination; order
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"):
genome (the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism)
genetic code (the ordering of nucleotides in DNA molecules that carries the genetic information in living cells)
word order (the order of words in a text)
bacteria order (an order of bacteria)
series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)
Meaning:
The act of putting things in a sequential arrangement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
ordering; order
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)
