Usually means: Reflexive, antisymmetric, transitive binary relation.
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  1. partial order: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. partial-order, partial order: Wiktionary
  3. Partial Order, Partial order: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Partial Order: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. partial order: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (partial order)

noun:  (set theory, order theory) (informal) An ordering of the elements of a collection that behaves like that of the natural numbers by size, except that some elements may not be comparable (if all elements are comparable, it is called a total order); (formal) a binary relation that is reflexive, antisymmetric, and transitive.

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