organization

The act or process of organizing.

The state or manner of being organized.

A manner of accomplishing something in an orderly or efficient way.

A group of persons organized for a particular purpose; an association or business.

The administrative personnel of such a structure.

In biology: The structural composition of an organism.

Metaphorically, the cause or explanation of the structure of organisms; that which organizes; an organizing influence. Most of the attempts to imagine an architecture in the egg as an explanation of the structure of the being that is developed from the egg are based upon the metaphorical conception of organization. See germ-plasm and physiological unit.

In pathology, conversion of an amorphous substance, such as a blood-clot, into organized tissue.