ordinaali — meaning in English
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English meaning
- ordinal adj Indicating position in a sequence.
Senses
ordinaali is used for these senses in English:
- ordinal An ordinal number such as first, second and third.
- ordinal A book used in the ordination of Anglican ministers, or in certain Roman Catholic services
- ordinal number (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".
ordinal — full definition
- adj Indicating position in a sequence.
- adj Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of order.
- adj Intercardinal.