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Noun
/ˈpresədəns/,/priˈsēdns/,
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The condition of being considered more important than someone or something else; priority in importance, order, or rank,
  1. The condition of being considered more important than someone or something else; priority in importance, order, or rank
    • - his desire for power soon took precedence over any other consideration
  2. The order to be ceremonially observed by people of different rank, according to an acknowledged or legally determined system
    • - quarrels over precedence among the Bonaparte family marred the coronation
  1. status established in order of importance or urgency; "...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals"; "national independence takes priority over class struggle"
  2. priority: preceding in time
  3. precession: the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)
  4. Precedence (also known as Order of Precedence) is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of playing cards. It is a building game where the playing does not have to worry about a tableau or playing area. ...
  5. The rules of conduct that, in the absence of other guidance, determine what should happen first. For example, in the absence of parentheses, you always do multiplication before addition.
  6. The established system of priorities of trades in an exchange. For example, the highest bid and lowest offer have highest precedence; the first bid or first offer at a price has highest priority, and large orders have priority over smaller orders.
  7. The order in which operations are performed when operators are used without explicit parentheses.
  8. When one task must be completed before another, the first is said to have precedence over the second.
  9. n. The ``strength'' of an operator, indicating how tightly it binds to its operands during parsing, especially as compared to other nearby operators. ...
  10. It is possible for a source node to match more than one template rule. The precedence rules of XSLT determine which one is acted up. See XSLT section 5.5. Not to be confused with import precedence, which determines the precedence of imported stylesheets. Not to be confused with PRIORITY
  11. The system often regulated by law, of placing flags, emblems or coats of arms for a display or ceremony in order of importance – for more details see ‘Appendix II’, ‘rules of etiquette’ and ‘position of honour’ (also ‘flag code’ and ‘flag law’).
  12. Priority; the right to superior honor on a ceremonial or formal occasion; for ambassadors in a country, precedence is determined by the order in which they presented their credentials to the host government.
  13. Order in which amendments or motions may be offered and acted upon.
  14. In the event that Insights enters into an agreement for the supply of products and services with a client and there is any conflict between the terms of that agreement and these standards terms of business, the terms of the agreement for the supply of products and services shall take precedence.
  15. The order in which a group of medals should be mounted on a medal bar with the highest precedence medals on the left and the lowest on the right (see also Order of Wear)
  16. ( Latin præcedere , to go before another).
  17. (pronounced pre-see-dence). The rules of rank or priority which govern the proposing, consideration and disposing of motions. An example is that the motion to adjourn has precedence over an amendment.
  18. Order of operation: parenthesis have the highest precedence and assignment has the lowest precedence. Precedence Table
  19. Judges are obliged to give reasons for their decisions in court. Subsequent cases of the same type may refer to those judgements because of the precedence that has been set.
  20. Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993) is currently the default used by BirdLife for the recognition of species limits unless the species is treated by the additional sources, in which case the sources for albatrosses and petrels, and for Extinct species, usually take precedence over everything and the ...
  21. standard rule in most leagues (including NFL and NCFL), which requires the presiding officer to choose speakers who have spoken least (or not at all).
  22. (JP 1-02) - 1. communications--A designation assigned to a message by the originator to indicate to communications personnel the relative order of handling and to the addressee the order in which the message is to be noted. 2. ...
  23. an ordering of operators such that if two operators are adjacent in a flat (unparenthesized) expression, the operator with higher precedence is performed first.
  24. the order in which cell appearance properties are set.
  25. In product innovation, this term refers to the order of market entry. A product is first to market, second, and so on.