Usually means: Position in a sequential order.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word ordinal number:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. ordinal number: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ordinal number: Merriam-Webster
  3. ordinal number: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ordinal number: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ordinal number: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ordinal number: Vocabulary.com
  7. ordinal number: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ordinal-number, ordinal number: Wiktionary
  9. ordinal number: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ordinal number: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ordinal number: Dictionary.com
  12. Ordinal number (linguistics), Ordinal number (mathematics), Ordinal number (set theory), Ordinal number: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. ordinal number: Rhymezone
  14. ordinal number: FreeDictionary.org
  15. ordinal number: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. ordinal number: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ordinal number: Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ordinal Number: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. ordinal number: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  3. ordinal number: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

(Note: See ordinal_numbers as well.)

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".

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