1. ordinal - Noun
2. ordinal - Adjective
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 dictionaryThese 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