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Priority is the quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior. 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

• 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

• 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:
  • 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

• Prioritization is an action that arranges items or activities in order of urgency or importance.
• Preemption (disambiguation)
• Preference

• All pages with titles beginning with Priority