Authority (disambiguation)

Authority is the power to command.

Authority or The Authority may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * Authority (album), a 2014 album by British electronic music group Client
 * "Authority" (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), a ninth-season episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
 * Authority (Southern Reach Trilogy), a 2014 book by Jeff VanderMeer, the second book in the Southern Reach trilogy
 * The Authority (comics), superhero comic book published by DC Comics, under the Wildstorm imprint, debuting in 1999
 * The Authority, His Dark Materials character who debuts in the 2000 novel The Amber Spyglass
 * "The Authority" (The Amazing World of Gumball), a second-season episode of The Amazing World of Gumball
 * The Authority, used by the autonomous council of vampire hierarchs in The Southern Vampire Mysteries novels and the TV series True Blood based on the novels

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)

Law

 * Legal authority, a right or permission to do something
 * Legal authority to arrest someone, known as the power of arrest
 * Authority, one of the sources of law in a particular legal system
 * Primary authority
 * Secondary authority
 * Authority in the law of agency, the ability of an agent to legally bind a principal
 * Apparent authority
 * Actual authority
 * Rational-legal authority, a sociological concept

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