: characterized by order: such as
a
: marked by regularity or discipline
led an ordered life
b
: marked by regular or harmonious arrangement or disposition
an ordered landscape
the ordered crystal structure
c
: having elements arranged or identified according to a rule: such as
(1)
: having the property that every pair of different elements is related by a transitive relationship that is not symmetric
(2)
: having elements labeled by ordinal numbers
an ordered triple has a first, second, and third element
Examples of ordered in a Sentence
an ordered sequence of events
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Some ordered autopsies in sudden infant deaths and unexpected child deaths; others didn’t.
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Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 5 Mar. 2025
The memo was walked back days later and the ordered freeze has been halted by a federal court, but some programs appear to still be in limbo.
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The pilot ended up taking matters into his own hands and ordered pizza.
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Then the cells were randomly grouped into ordered pairs, like sets of coordinates.
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Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 5 Mar. 2025
The memo was walked back days later and the ordered freeze has been halted by a federal court, but some programs appear to still be in limbo.
—Kierra Frazier, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2025
The pilot ended up taking matters into his own hands and ordered pizza.
—Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2024
Then the cells were randomly grouped into ordered pairs, like sets of coordinates.
—Shaun Raviv, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2020
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“Ordered.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ordered. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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ordered
adjective
or·dered
ˈȯrd-ərd 
1
: carefully regulated or managed
led an ordered life
an ordered landscape
2
a
: having the property that for any two different elements a and b either a is greater than b or a is less than b
the set of real numbers is ordered
b
: having elements labeled by ordinal numbers
an ordered pair has a first and a second element
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