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well-ordered

[wel-awr-derd]

adjective

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



well-ordered

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of well-ordered1

First recorded in 1600–10
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Example Sentences

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

From BBC

Donald Trump’s fixation on well-ordered forests as an antidote to wildfires seems like a weird obsession, but it is rooted in the same high-modernist thought.

From Salon

"Families comprised of a married mother, father, and their children are the foundation of a well-ordered nation and healthy society," the document declares, putting single people and queer people into the category of woke un-people.

From Salon

These ingredients assemble themselves into a well-ordered structure consisting of semiconductor metal oxide molecules wrapped in graphene sheets.

Instead of the well-ordered characteristics of ferromagnets, these materials are disordered and the electrons within them connect magnetically via a process called quantum entanglement.

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