partial order (English, noun)
expansion: partial order (plural partial orders)
Senses:
topics: mathematics
order-theory
sciences
set-theory
glosses: (informal) An ordering of the elements of a collection that behaves like that of the natural numbers by size, except that some elements may not be comparable (if all elements are comparable, it is called a total order); (formal) a binary relation that is reflexive, antisymmetric, and transitive.
Forms:
form: partial orders
tags: plural