How to Use "ordinal" with Example Sentences

1. Utility can be divided into cardinal utility and ordinal utility .

2. Utility theory can finally be established as a theory of ordinal marginal utility .

3. This is a man 's ordinal value , or preference , scale for eggs .

4. If it is intensive , then no such fixed unit can apply , and any assignment of number would have to be ordinal .

5. It should be clear that the only arithmetic or mathematical relationship between these marginal utilities is a simple ordinal one .