ordinal number
number which indicates a place in a series (first, second, etc.) | ||||
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Ordinal number Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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ordinal number
Noun
1. the number designating place in an ordered sequence
(synonym) ordinal, no.
(hypernym) number
(hyponym) first, number one, number 1
Noun
1. the number designating place in an ordered sequence
(synonym) ordinal, no.
(hypernym) number
(hyponym) first, number one, number 1
Ordinal number Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Sean_Woo's Finance,GIS & Real Estate Glossary |
ordinal number
used in counting to indicate order, such as first, second, third, or fifth or 21th.
used in counting to indicate order, such as first, second, third, or fifth or 21th.
Ordinal number Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Ordinal number
In set theory, ordinal, ordinal number, and transfinite ordinal number refer to a type of number introduced by Georg Cantor in 1897, to accommodate infinite sequences and to classify sets with certain kinds of order structures on them. Ordinals are an extension of the natural numbers different from integers and from cardinals.
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