pseudo-ordern.

1873 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 122/1 Dr. Chapman..is inclined to derive the existing orders of monodelphians from various corresponding orders or pseudo-orders of didelphians.

1959 M. C. S. J. D'Arcy Meaning & Matter of Hist. x. 240 He feels justified in believing in the rise of an Anti-Christ exercising political power over the whole of mankind. This pseudo-order will deceive many.

1996 D. Hughes English Drama 1660–1700 157 Sir Formal ‘ranks the diseas'd people in their several classes, forms, or orders of diseases’..so that they may receive prescriptions from Gimcrack, and even this pseudo-order collapses when the call ‘Pox’..floods the stage with a chaotic mob.

1951 M. V. Wilkes et al. Prepar. Programs for Electronic Digital Computer i. ii. 17 Numbers may be represented outside the machine by ‘pseudo-orders’, that is, tape entries which are punched in the same form as orders but which are merely intended to be used as constants and are never to be obeyed as orders.

1955 Jrnl. Assoc. Computing Machinery 2 1 Programming may be simplified by the use of pseudoorders. We define these as additional orders (like square root..) which the machine cannot perform. [Note] In Wilkes, Wheeler and Gill..what we call pseudoorder is denoted there by ‘order’, whilst the word pseudoorder is used in a different context.

1964 F. L. Westwater Electronic Computers ix. 143 Each sub~routine was allocated a code number, and ‘pseudo-orders’ were written using these numbers as functions.

1980 IEEE Ann. Hist. Computing 2 17/1 The initial orders could only input instructions, so that to set up a programme constant it was necessary to fabricate a ‘pseudoorder’ with the same bit pattern as the desired constant.