well-ordered

  • 1well-ordered — adjective Date: 1589 1. having an orderly procedure or arrangement < a well ordered household > 2. partially ordered with every subset containing a first element and exactly one of the relationships “greater than”, “less than”, or “equal to”&#8230; …

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  • 2Well-founded phenomenon — Well founded phenomena ( la. phenomena bene fundata), in the philosophy of Gottfried Leibniz, are ways in which the world falsely appears to us, but which are grounded in the way the world actually is (as opposed to dreams or hallucinations,&#8230; …

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  • 3Well — Well, adv. [Compar. and superl. wanting, the deficiency being supplied by better and best, from another root.] [OE. wel, AS. wel; akin to OS., OFries., & D. wel, G. wohl, OHG. wola, wela, Icel. & Dan. vel, Sw. v[ a]l, Goth. wa[ i]la; originally&#8230; …

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  • 4Well enough — Well Well, adv. [Compar. and superl. wanting, the deficiency being supplied by better and best, from another root.] [OE. wel, AS. wel; akin to OS., OFries., & D. wel, G. wohl, OHG. wola, wela, Icel. & Dan. vel, Sw. v[ a]l, Goth. wa[ i]la;&#8230; …

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  • 5Well off — Well Well, adv. [Compar. and superl. wanting, the deficiency being supplied by better and best, from another root.] [OE. wel, AS. wel; akin to OS., OFries., & D. wel, G. wohl, OHG. wola, wela, Icel. & Dan. vel, Sw. v[ a]l, Goth. wa[ i]la;&#8230; …

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  • 6Well to do — Well Well, adv. [Compar. and superl. wanting, the deficiency being supplied by better and best, from another root.] [OE. wel, AS. wel; akin to OS., OFries., & D. wel, G. wohl, OHG. wola, wela, Icel. & Dan. vel, Sw. v[ a]l, Goth. wa[ i]la;&#8230; …

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  • 7Well to live — Well Well, adv. [Compar. and superl. wanting, the deficiency being supplied by better and best, from another root.] [OE. wel, AS. wel; akin to OS., OFries., & D. wel, G. wohl, OHG. wola, wela, Icel. & Dan. vel, Sw. v[ a]l, Goth. wa[ i]la;&#8230; …

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  • 8Well-order — In mathematics, a well order relation (or well ordering) on a set S is a total order on S with the property that every non empty subset of S has a least element in this ordering.Equivalently, a well ordering is a well founded total order.The set&#8230; …

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  • 9Well-ordering principle — In mathematics, the well ordering principle states that every non empty set of positive integers contains a smallest element. [cite book |title=Introduction to Analytic Number Theory |last=Apostol |first=Tom |authorlink=Tom M. Apostol |year=1976&#8230; …

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  • 10Ordered set — In order theory in mathematics, a set with a binary relation R on its elements that is reflexive (for all a in the set, aRa), antisymmetric (if aRb and bRa, then a&#160;=&#160;b) and transitive (if aRb and bRc, then aRc) is described as a&#8230; …

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