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well-ordered

American  
[wel-awr-derd] / ˈwɛlˈɔr dərd /

adjective

  1. arranged, planned, or occurring in a desirable way, sequence, etc.


well-ordered British  

adjective

  1. logic maths (of a relation) having the property that every nonempty subset of its field has a least member under the relation: less than is well-ordered on the natural numbers but not on the reals, since an open set has no least member

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of well-ordered

First recorded in 1600–10

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When a material contains the normal number of electrons, those electrons tend to organize into a well-ordered magnetic pattern called antiferromagnetism.

From Science Daily Jan. 26, 2026

More than a decade passed before he tested the idea, using copper ions and organic compounds called nitriles to create well-ordered, spacious crystals.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 8, 2025

Local resident Reka told me she couldn't understand how an attack like this could have happened in her well-ordered city.

From BBC Jun. 10, 2025

Three years later, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture whisked them off to a quaint fictional village in the west of England, zigzagging through arable fields and well-ordered front gardens.

From New York Times Jun. 17, 2024

It was an ordinary day in the quiet, well-ordered place.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

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