Quasivariety

In mathematics, a quasivariety is a class of algebraic structures generalizing the notion of variety by allowing equational conditions on the axioms defining the class.

A trivial algebra contains just one element.

A quasivariety is a class K of algebras with a specified signature satisfying any of the following equivalent conditions:[1] Every variety is a quasivariety by virtue of an equation being a quasi-identity for which n = 0.

The cancellative semigroups form a quasivariety.

Then the class of orderable algebras from K forms a quasivariety, since the preservation-of-order axioms are Horn clauses.