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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▸ 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".
Similar:
ordinal,
ordinality,
sequence,
numeration,
numberness,
limit ordinal,
number system,
successor,
counting number,
natural number,
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Adjectives:
numerary,
nominal,
numeral,
numerate,
numerical,
cardinal,
nos,
numeric,
numerative,
digited,
unnumbered
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