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Definition of "first-order" []

Describing the simplest of many models, languages, relationship, forms of logical discourse etc, or the first in a numerical sequence of such things. (adjective)

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Use "first-order" in a sentence

"However, this first-order effect is not the only way that interreligious marriage can affect interreligious relations."
"Germany's mistake was to consider only first-order effects on bank capital, whereas it would be the second-order contagion effects on government and bank borrowing costs that would do the greatest damage."
"Mr. Obama may be hobbled by a poor economy and unpopular policies, but he is a first-order campaigner."

Words like "first-order"

discrete-time

first-order approximation

first-order control

first-order difference

first-order election

first-order fluid

first-order function

first-order hold

first-order levelling

first-order logic

first-order ordinary differential

state-space

third order