"order type" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: order types [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} order type (plural order types)
  1. (set theory) In the context of sets equipped with an order (especially, the context of totally ordered sets), the characteristic of being a member of some equivalence class of such sets under the equivalence relation "existence of an order-preserving bijection". Wikipedia link: Ordinal number#Von Neumann definition of ordinals, order type Categories (topical): Set theory Synonyms: order-type, ordertype Related terms: order isomorphism, ordinal number Translations (characteristic of being a member of an equivalence class of ordered sets): järjestystyyppi (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-order_type-en-noun-dycFKT6q Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: mathematics, sciences, set-theory

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