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Title of object: complete lattice
Canonical Name: CompleteLattice
Type: Definition

Created on: 2002-08-17 23:15:37
Modified on: 2007-01-28 11:28:04

Creator: yark
Modifier: yark
Author: yark
Author: Evandar

Classification: msc:06B23, msc:03G10
Defines: countably complete lattice, countably-complete lattice

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Content:

A \emph{complete lattice} is a poset $P$
such that every subset of $P$ has both a supremum and an infimum in $P$.

A \emph{countably complete lattice} is a poset $P$
such that every countable subset of $P$ has both a supremum and an infimum in $P$.

Note that every complete lattice is a countably complete lattice,
and every countably complete lattice is a bounded lattice.