preordered
preordered is the simple past and past participle of preorder.
Meaning of preorder
Verb
preorder (third-person singular simple present preorders, present participle preordering, simple past and past participle preordered)
- To order (goods or services) in advance, before they are available.
- Preorder now at website.com!
- To sort or arrange beforehand.
Adjective
preordered (not comparable)
- Equipped with a preorder.
- Most of the theory of this section on linear order spaces (and cones) can be generalized to preordered linear spaces (and wedges).1980, Johann Schröder, Operator Inequalities, Academic Press, page 8
- It can be proved [see Herden (1989a,c, 1990, 1993a,b) and Herden and Mehta (1997a) that a continuous isotone (or strictly isotone) function defined on a closed subset K of a preordered topological space X has a continuous isotone (or strictly isotone) extension to a function g on X if and only if...1998, Ghanshyam B. Mehta, “Chapter 1: Preference and Utility”, in Salvador Barbera, Peter Hammond, Christian Seidl, editors, Handbook of Utility Theory, Volume 1: Principles, Springer, page 30
Questions about preordered
- What does preordered mean?
- Preordered means equipped with a preorder.
- What is preordered the simple past and past participle of?
- Preordered is the simple past and past participle of preorder.
- What part of speech is preordered?
- Preordered is an adjective.
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