Priority

Prioritization is an action that arranges items or activities in order of importance.

Priority may refer specifically to:

Law

• 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

• Priorities, the debut album by Bedfordshire-based rock band Don Broco
• "Priority", a song by Jolin Tsai from the 2004 album Castle
• Priority Records, a record label started in 1985 and acquired by Capitol Records
• Priority (album), by the Pointer Sisters

Science

• Priority, a tag or attribute of a requirement in software or systems engineering
• Priority of the scientific names of organisms, including:
  • Principle of Priority, 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

• 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

See also

• Preemption (disambiguation)
• Preference
• Scheduling (computing), the way processes are assigned priorities in a run queue; prioritization
• All pages with titles beginning with Priority