well-ordered

American  

[wel-awr-derd] / ˈwɛlˈɔr dərd /

adjective

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

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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

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Etymology

Origin of well-ordered

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

It should be possible—and it is essential to a well-ordered society—to call out morally reprehensible behavior by your own side as well as by your opponents.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

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

From BBC

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

From Science Daily

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.

From Science Daily

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