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

Word History and Origins

Origin of well-ordered¹

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

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

Three years later, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture whisked them off to a quaint fictional village in the west of England, zigzagging through arable fields and well-ordered front gardens.

From New York Times

If the material is charged slowly, everything proceeds in a well-ordered way.

From Science Daily

Crystalline semiconductors possess a well-ordered atomic or molecular structure while amorphous semiconductors lack such regularity.

From Science Daily

To convalesce, they stay in this compound, and exercise by walking around its well-ordered clusters of three-story buildings and a synthetic turf avenue with a playground and soccer field.

From Los Angeles Times

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