"cofinal" meaning in English

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          "text": "The Archimedean property of real numbers means that the natural numbers form a cofinal subset of ℝ.",
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          "text": "In order to apply this result to Quine’s project of radical translation, we take X to be the set of all Native observation sentences and construe an observational sub-language that contains only observation sentences and all their syntactic parts such that X is cofinal in the set of expressions of the sub-language.",
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        "Of a subset of a partially ordered set; containing elements at least as late as any given element of the set, relative to the given partial order."
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        "(order theory) Of a subset of a partially ordered set; containing elements at least as late as any given element of the set, relative to the given partial order."
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          "sense": "containing elements at least as late as any given element of the containing set",
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