Meets of General Subsets
If (A,∧) is a meet-semilattice, then the meet may be extended to a well-defined meet of any non-empty finite set, by the technique described in iterated binary operations. Alternatively, if the meet defines or is defined by a partial order, some subsets of A indeed have infima with respect to this, and it is reasonable to consider such an infimum as the meet of the subset. For non-empty finite subsets, the two approaches yield the same result, whence either may be taken as a definition of meet. In the case where each subset of A has a meet, in fact (A,≤) is a complete lattice; for details, see completeness (order theory).
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