ordinal
pronunciation
How to pronounce ordinal in British English:
UK [ˈɔ:dɪnl]
How to pronounce ordinal in American English:
US [ˈɔrdənl]
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- Noun:
- the number designating place in an ordered sequence
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to a taxonomic order
- being or denoting a numerical order in a series
Word Origin
- ordinal (n.)
- early 14c., "book setting forth the order of services in the Church," from Late Latin adjective ordinalis (see ordinal (adj.)).
- ordinal (adj.)
- late 14c., "regular, ordinary," from Old French ordinel and directly from Late Latin ordinalis ""showing order, denoting an order of succession," from Latin ordo (genitive ordinis) "row, series" (see order (n.)). Meaning "marking position in an order or series" is from 1590s.
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Example
- 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 .