Authority (disambiguation)

Authority is the power to command.

Authority or The Authority may also refer to:

Authority (management), formal or legitimate, specified in a charter
Authority (sociology), the legitimate or socially approved use of power
Authority (textual criticism), its reliability as a witness to the author's intentions
Appeal to authority, type of argument in logic
Authority control, library and information science, standardizing the names of entities
High Authority (disambiguation), refers to several executive organizations or branches
Police authority (UK), body charged with securing efficient and effective control of a territorial police area
Public authority, a government chartered corporation such as a transit authority
Taxonomic authority, the scientist who first validly published a taxon name
The Palestinian National Authority, the administrative organization established to govern the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a consequence of the 1994 Oslo Accords.

Entertainment

The Authority (comics), superhero comic book published by DC Comics, under the Wildstorm imprint, debuting in 1999
The Authority, listed in characters of His Dark Materials, who debuts in the 2000 novel The Amber Spyglass
The Authority, used by the autonomous council of vampire hierarchs in The Southern Vampire Mysteries novels and the TV series True Blood based off the novels.
The Authority (professional wrestling), a faction in WWE created by Triple H and Stephanie McMahon
Authority (Southern Reach Trilogy), a 2014 book by Jeff VanderMeer, the second book in the Southern Reach trilogy
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, a grading of a blog's worthiness, used by Technorati
one of two scores assigned by the HITS algorithm, a scheme used for ranking web pages (also known as "Hubs and authorities")