Order Theory
- Order theory, which studies various binary relations known as orders
- Order (journal), an academic journal on order theory
- Partial order, often called just "order" in order theory texts; a transitive antisymmetric relation
- Total order, a partial order that is also total, in that either the relation or its inverse holds between any unequal elements
- Dense order, a total order where between any unequal pair of elements there is always an intervening element in the order
- Lexicographical order, an ordering method on sequences analogous to alphabetical order on words
- Order topology, a topology of total order for totally ordered sets
- Ordinal numbers, which are assigned to sets based on their set-theoretic order
- Glossary of order theory
- List of order theory topics
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