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well-ordered set: Meaning and Definition of

well'-ordered set'

Pronunciation: [key]
— Math. Math.
  1. a totally ordered set in which every nonempty subset has a smallest element with the property that there is no element in the subset less than this smallest element. Cf.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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