What do you call a bijection that must preserve the order of its mappings?

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A bijection is an injective and surjective function, as such:

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But the following is also a bijective function:

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This means there is a further restriction that could be added to the definition of a function, and that is one where "no crisscrossing of lines is allowed." This is what I mean when I say "a bijection that must preserve the order of its mappings."

Is there a category or name for such a restricted relationships between sets and/or categories?

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It is called an increasing (or less ambiguously: order-preserving) bijection. Note that it is not necessarily an isomorphism of ordered sets. It is however if its domain is totally ordered.