poset

noun
/ˈpəʊsɛt/

Etymology

Abbreviation of partially ordered set. Coined by American mathematician Garrett Birkhoff in his Lattice Theory.

Definitions

  1. A partially ordered set.

    • The combinatorial interest in posets is largely due to two unoriented graphs associated with a given poset: the comparability graph (which we shall not consider here) and the covering graph.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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