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partial orders

partial orders is the plural of partial order.

Meaning of partial order

Noun

partial order (plural partial orders)

  1. (informal) An ordering of the elements of a collection that behaves like that of the natural numbers by size, except that some elements may not be comparable (if all elements are comparable, it is called a total order); (formal) a binary relation that is reflexive, antisymmetric, and transitive.
    • A partial order on a set X is any reflexive, antisymmetric, transitive relation on X. In most cases, partial orders are denoted ≤.1986, Kenneth R. Goodearl, Partially Ordered Abelian Groups with Interpolation, American Mathematical Society, Softcover reprint 2010, page xxi

Questions about partial orders

What is partial orders the plural of?
Partial orders is the plural of partial order.

Words near partial orders in the dictionary

  1. partial object
  2. partial objects
  3. partial order
  4. partial ordering relation
  5. partial ordering relations
  6. partial orders
  7. partial out
  8. partial pin
  9. partial pins
  10. partial pressure
  11. partial pressures

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