Definitions from Wiktionary (ordinal number)
▸ noun: (grammar) A word that expresses the relative position of an item in a sequence.
▸ noun: (arithmetic) A natural number used to denote position in a sequence.
▸ noun: (set theory) Such a number generalised to correspond to any cardinal number (the size of some set); formally, the order type of some well-ordered set of some cardinality a, which represents an equivalence class of well-ordered sets (exactly those of cardinality a) under the equivalence relation "existence of an order-preserving bijection".
▸ Also see ordinal_number
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▸ noun: (grammar) A word that expresses the relative position of an item in a sequence.
▸ noun: (arithmetic) A natural number used to denote position in a sequence.
▸ noun: (set theory) Such a number generalised to correspond to any cardinal number (the size of some set); formally, the order type of some well-ordered set of some cardinality a, which represents an equivalence class of well-ordered sets (exactly those of cardinality a) under the equivalence relation "existence of an order-preserving bijection".
▸ Also see ordinal_number
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▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)
▸ Words that often appear near ordinal numbers
▸ Rhymes of ordinal numbers
▸ Invented words related to ordinal numbers