• Authority (management)
  Authority (management)
  Authority in management is the formal or legitimate authority specified in a charter that gives a project manager the authority to act in the name of the sponsoring executive or on behalf on the organization.There are different types of authority:...
  
  , formal or legitimate, specified in a charter
• Authority (sociology)
  Authority (sociology)
  Authority is the legitimate or socially approved use of power.It is the legitimate power which one person or a group holds over another. The element of legitimacy is vital to the notion of authority and is the main means by which authority is distinguished from the more general concept of power....
  
  , the legitimate or socially approved use of power
• Authority (textual criticism)
  Authority (textual criticism)
  The authority of a text is its reliability as a witness to the author's intentions. These intentions could be initial, medial or final, but intentionalist editors generally attempt to retrieve final authorial intentions...
  
  , its reliability as a witness to the author's intentions
• Appeal to authority, type of argument in logic
• Authority control
  Authority control
  Authority control is the practice of creating and maintaining index terms for bibliographic material in a catalog in library and information science. Authority control fulfills two important functions. First, it enables catalogers to disambiguate items with similar or identical headings...
  
  , term used in library and information science
• High Authority (disambiguation), refers to several executive organizations or branches
• Police authority
  Police authority
  A police authority in the United Kingdom, is a body charged with securing efficient and effective policing of a police area served by a territorial police force or the area and/or activity policed by a special police force...
  
   (UK), body charged with securing efficient and effective control of a territorial police area
• Public authority or public benefit corporation, a government chartered corporation such as a transit authority
• The Authority, superhero comic book published by DC Comics, under the Wildstorm imprint
• The Authority, listed in Characters of His Dark Materials
  Characters of His Dark Materials
  The following is a list of both main and minor characters from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.-Main characters:The information about each character on the following list does not identify the literary characters from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Paradise Lost that these...
  
  
• Authority, a grading of a blog's worthiness, used by Technorati
  Technorati
  Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. By June 2008, Technorati was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media...
  
  
• one of two scores assigned by the HITS algorithm
  HITS algorithm
  Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search is a link analysis algorithm that rates Web pages, developed by Jon Kleinberg. It was a precursor to PageRank...
  
  , a scheme used for ranking web pages (also known as "Hubs and authorities")

See also

• Authoritarian personality
  Authoritarian personality
  -Historical Origins:Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswick, Levinson and Sanford compiled a large body of research and theory , which attempted to characterize a personality type that described the “potentially fascistic individual”...
  
  , influential theory, developed in a 1950 book, by several UC Berkeley psychologists
• Authoritarianism
  Authoritarianism
  Authoritarianism is a form of social organization characterized by submission to authority. It is usually opposed to individualism and democracy...
  
  , describes a form of government characterized by an emphasis on the authority of the state in a republic or union