Definitions for ordinal number
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
or′dinal num′ber(n.)
any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third.
Category: Math
Origin of ordinal number:
1600–10
Princeton's WordNet
ordinal number, ordinal, no.(noun)
the number designating place in an ordered sequence
Wiktionary
ordinal number(Noun)
A word that expresses the relative position of an item in an ordered sequence.
ordinal number(Noun)
A number used to denote position in a sequence.
ordinal number(Noun)
A generalized kind of number to denote the size of a well-ordered set.
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