Authority (disambiguation)

Authority is the power to command.

Authority or The Authority may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Internet

  • Authority, a grading of a blog's worthiness, used by Technorati
  • Authority, one of two scores assigned by the HITS algorithm, a scheme used for ranking web pages (also known as "Hubs and authorities")

Organizations

  • High Authority (disambiguation), any of several executive organizations or branches
  • Palestinian National Authority, the administrative organization established to govern the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a consequence of the 1994 Oslo Accords
  • Police authority (UK), a body charged with securing efficient and effective control of a territorial police area
  • Public authority, a government-chartered corporation such as a transit authority
  • The Authority (professional wrestling), a faction in WWE created by Triple H and Stephanie McMahon

Other uses

  • Authority (management), formal or legitimate, specified in a charter
  • Authority (sociology), the legitimate or socially approved use of power
  • Authority (textual criticism), a text's reliability as a witness to the author's intentions
  • Appeal to authority, a type of argument in logic
  • Authority control, in library and information science, standardization of the names of entities
  • Taxonomic authority, the scientist who first validly published a taxon name
gollark: Rewriting in Rust (RiR) is now renamed "carcinization".
gollark: ↓ carcinize
gollark: Simply delete all copies of yBot via the backdoors you added to it, and also remove your source code.
gollark: Have you tried not being stressed?
gollark: Ah, so duct tape.

See also

  • Authoritarian personality, influential theory, developed in a 1950 book, by several UC Berkeley psychologists
  • Authoritarianism, describes a form of government characterized by an emphasis on the authority of the state in a republic or union
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