ALL meanings of cardinal number
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C c - countable noun cardinal number A cardinal number is a number such as 1, 3, or 10 that tells you how many things there are in a group but not what order they are in. Compare ordinal number. 3
- noun cardinal number a number denoting quantity but not order in a set 3
- noun cardinal number a measure of the size of a set that does not take account of the order of its members 3
- noun cardinal number a particular number having this function 3
- noun cardinal number any number used in counting or in showing how many (e.g., two, forty, 627, etc.) 3
- noun cardinal number Also called cardinal numeral. any of the numbers that express amount, as one, two, three, etc. (distinguished from ordinal number). 1
- noun cardinal number Also called potency, power. Mathematics. a number or symbol analogous to the number of elements in a finite set, being identical for two sets that can be placed into one-to-one correspondence: The cardinal number of the set a1, a2, … an is n. 1
- noun cardinal number counting number: 1, 2, 3, etc. 1
- noun Technical meaning of cardinal number The cardinality of some set. 1
- noun cardinal number A number used to denote quantity; a counting number. 0
- noun cardinal number (mathematics) A generalized kind of number used to denote the size of a set, including infinite sets. 0
- noun cardinal number (grammar) A word that expresses a countable quantity; a cardinal numeral. 0