What does ordinal number mean?
Definitions for ordinal number
or·di·nal num·ber
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Princeton's WordNet
ordinal number, ordinal, no.noun
the number designating place in an ordered sequence
Wiktionary
ordinal numbernoun
A word that expresses the relative position of an item in an ordered sequence.
ordinal numbernoun
A number used to denote position in a sequence.
ordinal numbernoun
A generalized kind of number to denote the size of a well-ordered set.
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ordinal number
An ordinal number is a number that represents position or order in relation to other numbers. For example, first, second, and third are ordinal numbers. In mathematics, ordinal numbers are used to not only denote an element's position but also the size of a set. It extends to include zero and the concept of infinity.
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Ordinal number
In set theory, an ordinal number, or just ordinal, is the order type of a well-ordered set. They are usually identified with hereditarily transitive sets. Ordinals are an extension of the natural numbers different from integers and from cardinals. Like other kinds of numbers, ordinals can be added, multiplied, and exponentiated. Ordinals were introduced by Georg Cantor in 1883 to accommodate infinite sequences and to classify sets with certain kinds of order structures on them. He derived them by accident while working on a problem concerning trigonometric series—see Georg Cantor. Two sets S and S' have the same cardinality if there is a bijection between them If a partial order < is defined on set S, and a partial order
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of ordinal number in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of ordinal number in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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- ordinální čísloCzech
- järjestysluku, ordinaaliluku, ordinaaliFinnish
- nombre ordinalFrench
- rendszámHungarian
- nomor urutIndonesian
- 順序数Japanese
- ranggetalDutch
- liczebnik porządkowyPolish
- số thứ tựVietnamese
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