poset
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poset
- /ˈpəʊsɛt/
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Abbreviation of partially ordered set. Coined by American mathematician Garrett Birkhoff in his Lattice Theory.
noun posets
- A partially ordered set. 1973, Barbara L. Osofsky, Homological Dimensions of Modules, American Mathematical Society, →ISBN, page 76, 42. Definition. A poset (partially ordered set) (X, ≤) (usually written just X) is a set X together with a transitive, antisymmetric relation ≤ on X. 43. Definition. A linearly ordered set or
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title = {poset},
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