Meaning & use
ordinal
Indicating position in a numbered sequence, such as first, second, or third, rather than a quantity.
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Third and fourth are ordinal numbers, while three and four are cardinal numbers.
The race results were recorded using ordinal rankings from first to last place.
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Ordinal contrasts with cardinal, which expresses quantity rather than order or rank.
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