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Prioritization is an action that arranges items or activities in order of importance.
Priority may refer specifically to:
Law
[edit]- Priority or right of way on the road, see Traffic § Priority (right of way)
- Priority signs, a traffic sign that specifies which route has the right of way
- Priority date, a concept of establishing waiting times in the immigration process by United States Department of State
- Priority right, a time-limited right, triggered by the first filing of an application for a patent
- Subordination (finance), the order of priorities in claims for ownership or interest in various assets
Music
[edit]- Priority (Pointer Sisters album)
- Priority (Imperials album), 1980
- Priorities, the debut album by Bedfordshire-based rock band Don Broco
- "Priority", a song by Jolin Tsai from the 2004 album Castle
- "Priority", a song by SM Town from the 2022 album 2022 Winter SM Town: SMCU Palace
- Priority Records, a record label started in 1985 and acquired by Capitol Records
Science and technology
[edit]- Scheduling priority, the way computing processes are assigned priorities in a run queue
- Priority, a tag or attribute of a requirement in software or systems engineering
- Priority of the scientific names of organisms, including:
- Priority (biology) in biological taxonomy, the principle that the oldest available name for a biological taxon is the valid one
- In botanical nomenclature
- In zoological nomenclature
- Priority number, given to each functional group in IUPAC organic nomenclature
- Scientific priority, the priority of scientific ideas
Other uses
[edit]- Priority (fencing), a scoring criterion in the sport of fencing
- Priority level, the priority of emergency communications
- Priority mail, a service of the US Postal Service