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Adjective
totally ordered (not comparable)
- (set theory, order theory) That is equipped with a total order, that is a subset of (the ground set of) a partially ordered set whose partial order is a total order with respect to said subset.
- Hypernym: partially ordered
- Hyponym: well-ordered
- 1976, K. D. Stroyan, W. A. J. Luxemburg, Introduction to the Theory of Infinitesimals, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (Academic Press), page 67,
- (A.2.5) THEOREM If A is a totally ordered ring and if I is a proper order ideal, then A/I is a totally ordered ring (with the operations and order given above).
1982, A. G. Hamilton, Numbers, Sets and Axioms: The Apparatus of Mathematics, Cambridge University Press, page 91:The set {1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24}, ordered by 'divides' is not totally ordered, since (for example) 6 and 8 are not related. However, the set {1, 2, 4, 12, 24} is totally ordered by the relation 'divides'.
- 1996, Scientific Books staff (translators), Vasiliǐ M. Kopytov, Nikolaǐ Ya. Medvedev, Right-Ordered Groups, Scientific Books, page 98,
- We introduce the following notation:
- is a transitive group of order automorphisms of a totally ordered set ,
- is a convex -congruence on the totally ordered set ,
- is the order type of the totally ordered set ,
- is the order type of some class of the congruence ,
- is the order type of the totally ordered quotient set of the totally ordered set by the congruence .
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that is equipped with a total order
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