Let be a lattice (or a bounded lattice or a complemented lattice, etc.), and let be the covering relation of :
Then is locally realized provided that for every finite subset of , there is a finitely generated sublattice of , that contains , for which . It can be shown that is locally realized if and only if there is a hyperfinitely generated sublattice of such that . Using this characterization of locally realized covering relations, the following standard result can be proved using nonstandard methods:
Let be a locally finite lattice in which the covering relation is locally realized, and let be the sublattice of which is generated by . Then is a connected tolerance of , and it is in fact the smallest locally subconnected (and locally connected) tolerance of .