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order types

order types is the plural of order type.

Meaning of order type

Noun

order type (plural order types)

  1. In the context of sets equipped with an order (especially, the context of totally ordered sets), the characteristic of being a member of some equivalence class of such sets under the equivalence relation "existence of an order-preserving bijection".
    • 1965 [John Wiley], Raymond L. Wilder, Introduction to the Foundations of Mathematics: 2nd Edition, 2012, Dover, page 116,
      Another way of putting this is to state that the order type is that aspect of the arrangement of the elements of a simply ordered set, which remains unchanged when any two...

Questions about order types

What is order types the plural of?
Order types is the plural of order type.

Words near order types in the dictionary

  1. order to cash
  2. order to show cause
  3. order tree
  4. order trees
  5. order type
  6. order types
  7. order up
  8. order'd
  9. order-consolidation
  10. order-consolidations
  11. order-in-council

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