Sentence examples for order entity from inspiring English sources

These two definitions are supplemented with a principle which identifies the levels of particular defined functions, namely, that the level of a defined function should be one higher than the highest order entity having a name or variable that appears in the definition of that function.

Under the progressive evolution I mean transition to a higher order entity: elementary particle → atom → molecule → macromolecule → prokaryotic cell → eukaryotic cell → multicellular organism → biological species → ecosystem.

In (Deus et al., 2010), we envisioned a hosted service depicting complex relationships between samples, patients and other higher order entities in the TCGA.

Second, is it a first-order entity or a higher-order entity?

The set of all strategies of player 2 is undeniably a higher-order entity.

Lyons (1977: 442 445) distinguishes three types of entities: first-order, second-order, and third-order entities.

Outer forces of lower-order entities are inner forces of higher-order entities: for instance, outer forces of nuclei are inner forces of atoms (A.34b).

Third-order entities are abstract; they are outside both space and time.

On the same basis Quine would, no doubt, have accepted that IFL is only committed to first-order entities.

Second-order entities are events, processes/activities, and states; they are what are referred to as "states of affairs".

Generally speaking, first-order entities are physical objects such as animals, people, plants, artifacts, e.g., dog, woman, tulip, and car.