ordered field

noun

1. Mathematics. a field containing a subset of elements closed under addition and multiplication and having the property that every element in the field is either zero, in the subset, or has its additive inverse in the subset.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ordered field¹

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

Then he ordered Field-Marshal Eel to fetch in a nine-tined fork, which weighed three thousand six hundred pounds.

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