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cofinal

cofinal adjective: of a subset of a partially ordered set; containing elements at least as late as any given element of the set, relative to the given partial order.

Adjective

cofinal (not comparable)

  1. Of a subset of a partially ordered set; containing elements at least as late as any given element of the set, relative to the given partial order.
    • The Archimedean property of real numbers means that the natural numbers form a cofinal subset of ℝ.
    • In order to apply this result to Quine’s project of radical translation, we take X to be the set of all Native observation sentences and construe an observational sub-language that contains only observation sentences and all their syntactic parts such that X is cofinal in the set of expressions of...2007 November 29, Manfred Kupffer, “An Unintentional Defense of the Indeterminacy of Meaning?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI

Origin of cofinal

From co- + final.

Words formed from cofinal

Questions about cofinal

What does cofinal mean?
Cofinal means of a subset of a partially ordered set; containing elements at least as late as any given element of the set, relative to the given partial order.
What part of speech is cofinal?
Cofinal is an adjective.

Words near cofinal in the dictionary

  1. cofilin
  2. cofilins
  3. cofilmmaker
  4. cofilmmakers
  5. cofiltered
  6. cofinal
  7. cofinalities
  8. cofinality
  9. cofinally
  10. cofinance
  11. cofinanced

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