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Ordinal

noun
1.
The number designating place in an ordered sequence.  Synonyms: no., ordinal number.
adjective
1.
Of or relating to a taxonomic order.
2.
Being or denoting a numerical order in a series.  "Held an ordinal rank of seventh"  Antonym: cardinal.



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"Ordinal" Quotes from Famous Books



... eventuation, (its chain of events.) It shows that statism, or world-existence-at-rest, in space, is analogous with the cardinal series of numeration; and motism or world-existence-in-motion, in time, analogous with the ordinal series of numbers; and that, finally, statism and cardinism, (as of the four cardinal points in the orientation of space,) are analogous with spiritualities and the spirit world; and that motism and ordinism (succession by steps) are analogous with temporalities, (transitory things) ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870 • Various


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