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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=mathematics">mathematics</a>, especially <a href="page.php?w=order_theory">order theory</a>, a <b>partial order</b> on a <a href="page.php?w=Set_%28mathematics%29">set</a> is an arrangement such that, for certain pairs of elements, one precedes the other. The word partial is used to indicate that not every pair of elements needs to be comparable; that is, there may be pairs for which neither element precedes the other. Partial orders thus generalize <a href="page.php?w=total_order">total order</a>s, in which every pair</p><p>
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