Appointment may refer to a number of things, including the following:

• An appointment is a time reserved for something such as a doctor visit, much like a reservation. A physician, medical practitioner or medical doctor who practices Medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human Health
• An appointment, in government also refers to the assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court. For the government of parliamentary systems see Executive (government. President is a Title leaders of Organizations companies, Trade unions universities, and countries. A judge, or justice, is an Official who presides over a Court of law A court is a forum used by a power base to adjudicate disputes and dispense civil, labour administrative and criminal Justice under its This may also happen for an office which is normally elected, but has an unexpected vacancy. An election is a Decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold formal office A person appointed but not yet in office is a designate.
• The power of appointment, in law, is the ability of a testator to select another person to dispose of the testator's property. A power of appointment is a term most frequently used in the Law of wills to describe the ability of the Testator (the person writing the will to select Law is a system of rules enforced through a set of Institutions used as an instrument to underpin civil obedience politics economics and society A testator is a person who has written and executed a last will and testament that is in effect at the time of his/her death
• An appointment of clergy, in Christianity, is made by a bishop to a particular ministry setting, particularly in denominations which practice episcopal forms of church government and polity (such as Anglicanism and United Methodist Church. Clergy is the generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given Religion. Christianity ( Greek Χριστιανισμός from the word Xριστός ( Christ)is a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight Episcopal polity is a form of church governance which is hierarchical in structure with the chief authority over a local Christian church resting in a Bishop (Greek Anglicanism is a tradition of Christian faith Churches in this tradition either have historical connections to the Church of England or have similar beliefs The United Methodist Church is the largest Methodist denomination and the second largest Protestant denomination in the United States. ) Typically, a pastor is appointed to a particular church or parish.
• Appointment is used to describe a system of selecting candidates in which the choice is made by an individual or panel rather than by a poll of the populace in general (election), or through random selection (allotment/sortition) as used to select juries. An election is a Decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold formal office Sortition, also known as allotment, is an equal-chance method of selection by some form of lottery such as drawing coloured pebbles from a bag

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