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well–ordered
adjective well–or·dered \-ˈȯr-dərd\
: carefully organized or controlled
Full Definition of WELL-ORDERED
1
: having an orderly procedure or arrangement <a well–ordered household>
2
: partially ordered with every subset containing a first element and exactly one of the relationships “greater than”, “less than”, or “equal to” holding for any given pair of elements
— well–or·der·ing \-ˈȯrd-riŋ, -ˈȯr-də-\ noun
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