Usually means: Positions or ranks in sequence.
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We found 10 dictionaries that define the word ordinal numbers:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. ordinal numbers: Merriam-Webster
  2. ordinal numbers: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ordinal numbers: Vocabulary.com
  4. ordinal numbers: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. ordinal numbers: Wiktionary
  6. ordinal numbers: Dictionary.com
  7. Ordinal numbers (linguistics), Ordinal numbers: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Ordinal numbers: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ordinal Numbers: Glossary of English Grammar Terms

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ordinal numbers: Encyclopedia

(Note: See ordinal_number 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".
▸ Also see ordinal_number


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