Priority

Priority may refer to:

  • Priorities, debut album by Bedfordshire based rock band, Don Broco
  • Priority date, a concept of establishing waiting times in the immigration process by United States Department of State
  • Priority level, the priority of emergency communications
  • Priority Records, a record label started in 1985 and acquired by Capitol Records
  • Priority right, a time-limited right, triggered by the first filing of an application for a patent
  • Priority signs, a traffic sign that specifies which route has the right of way
  • Scientific priority, the priority of scientific ideas
  • Priority of the scientific names of organisms, including:
    • In botanical nomenclature
    • In zoological nomenclature
  • Subordination (finance), the order of priorities in claims for ownership or interest in various assets
  • Principle of Priority, the principle that the oldest available name for a biological taxon is the valid one
  • A tag or attribute of a requirement in software or systems engineering
  • In IUPAC organic nomenclature, each functional group is given a priority number

Famous quotes containing the word priority:

    “Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you’d spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?”
    —Louise Lague (20th century)

    “It can be fairly argued that the highest priority for mankind is to save itself from extinction. However, it can also be argued that a society that neglects its children and robs them of their human potential can extinguish itself without an external enemy.”
    —Selma Fraiberg (20th century)