Poradi

Poradi, with its Slovak form poradie and its Czech form pořadí, is a term used in Czech and Slovak to denote order, sequence, or ranking. It refers to the arrangement of items along a line, the position of an element within a list, or the ordering of events, people, or objects in a schedule or competition.

In everyday language, poradi can indicate temporal order (the order of events in time), lexical or list order (the sequence of items in a catalog), or competitive ranking (the order of finishers). Distinct but related words in Czech and Slovak distinguish related concepts: in Czech, pořádek means tidiness or proper order, while pořadí means sequence or ranking; in Slovak, poriadok denotes orderliness, and poradie denotes order or sequence.

In mathematics and computer science, ordering describes a relation that arranges elements according to a rule. Sorting algorithms produce a total order on a set of items. The term also appears in statistics as order statistics, which study values at given ranks in a sample. In linguistics, poradie slov refers to the canonical word order within sentences, which varies among languages and affects meaning and emphasis.

Beyond theory, poradi appears in practical contexts such as broadcasting schedules, where the poradie of programs determines what is shown when, and in events or competitions, where participants are listed in a specific poradie or starting order.

See also: order, sequence, ranking, sorting, ordinal numbers, language word order.