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ordertype

ordertype is the alternative form 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...

Forms of ordertype

pluralordertypes

Questions about ordertype

What is ordertype the alternative form of?
Ordertype is the alternative form of order type.

Words near ordertype in the dictionary

  1. orders of the day
  2. orders out
  3. orders to show cause
  4. orders up
  5. orders-in-council
  6. ordertype
  7. Orderville
  8. ordes
  9. Ordian
  10. Ordibehesht
  11. ordie

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