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partially ordered sets

partially ordered sets is the plural of partially ordered set.

Meaning of partially ordered set

Noun

partially ordered set (plural partially ordered sets)

  1. (broadly) A set that has a given, elsewhere specified partial order.
  2. (formal) The ordered pair comprising a set and its partial order.
    • 1959 [D. Van Nostrand], Edward James McShane, Truman Arthur Botts, Real Analysis, 2005, Dover, page 28,
      A partially ordered set means a pair (P,≻) consisting of a set P and a partial order ≻ in P. As usual, when the meaning is clear, we may suppress the notation of "≻" and speak of the partially...

Questions about partially ordered sets

What is partially ordered sets the plural of?
Partially ordered sets is the plural of partially ordered set.

Words near partially ordered sets in the dictionary

  1. partialling out
  2. partially
  3. partially defatted pork fatty tissue
  4. partially ordered
  5. partially ordered set
  6. partially ordered sets
  7. partialness
  8. partials
  9. partials out
  10. partibilities
  11. partibility

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