ordinal

Speech parts

1. ordinal - Noun

2. ordinal - Adjective

Meaning

Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc.

Of or pertaining to an order.

A word or number denoting order or succession.

The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons.

A book containing the rubrics of the Mass.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

consecutive serial ordinal number cardinal prime no. folio missal integer fourteenth even total character numerator thirty-second
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Antonyms

cardinal one common like possible public
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Hypernyms

number

Hyponyms

first number one number 1

Phrases with the word

the ordinal number between eight and ten the ordinal number that follows eight the ordinal number that is one less than ten eighty-five in ordinal the next ordinal number after eight the ordinal number after eight

Anagrams

nailrod Arnoldi Lorinda Rinaldo Rodinal Roiland

Examples

These examples... show that, in whatever proportion of its limbs the Gorilla differs from Man, the other Apes depart still more widely from the Gorilla and that, consequently, such differences of proportion can have no ordinal value. Thomas Henry Huxley

ordinal numbers Source: Internet

held an ordinal rank of seventh Source: Internet

family and ordinal names of animals and plants Source: Internet

A cardinal is defined to be an equivalence class of similar classes (as opposed to ZFC, where a cardinal is a special sort of von Neumann ordinal). Source: Internet

Approval Voting, Boston: Birkhäuser, p. 29 They also give a specific definition of a sincere approval vote in terms of the voter's ordinal preferences as being any vote that, if it votes for one candidate, it also votes for any more preferred candidate. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

ordinability ordinable ordinaire ordinal adjective ordinal direction ordinal indicator