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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)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To order (goods or services) in advance, before they are available.
    • Preorder now at website.com!
  2. (transitive) To sort or arrange beforehand.

See all 5 meanings of preorder

Adjective

preordered (not comparable)

  1. 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.

Words near preordered in the dictionary

  1. preordaining
  2. preordainment
  3. preordainments
  4. preordains
  5. preorder
  6. preordered
  7. preordering
  8. preorders
  9. preordinance
  10. preordinances
  11. preordinate

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