partially ordered set
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.07 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A set that has a given, elsewhere specified partial order.
Example Sentences
- "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 ordered set P. The ordered fields defined earlier are easily seen to be examples of partially ordered sets."
- "In sections 7-10 we shall consider random fields over some subsets T of the partially ordered set T_M."
- "The invention of a derivative of a finite partially ordered set by Nazarova and Roiter in the late 1960s or early 1970s was a seminal event in the subject of representations of finite partially ordered sets (see [Simson 92])."