[see also: signify, indicate, convey, suggest
We partially order M by declaring X<Y to mean that......
Here (1) can be interpreted to mean that......
The first equality is understood to mean that......
Note that (A) means precisely that condition (B) is not satisfied.
Important analytic differences appear when one writes down precisely what is meant by......
Then (6) merely means that......
The difficulty is that it is by no means clear what one should mean by a normal family.