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Positional number
Answer for the clue "Positional number ", 7 letters:
ordinal
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Word definitions for ordinal in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "book setting forth the order of services in the Church," from Late Latin adjective ordinalis (see ordinal (adj.)).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ordinal \Or"di*nal\, a. [L. ordinalis, fr. ordo, ordinis, order. See Order .] Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc. Contrasted to cardinal . Of or pertaining to an order.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to a taxonomic order; "family and ordinal names of animals and plants" being or denoting a numerical order in a series; "ordinal numbers"; "held an ordinal rank of seventh" [ant: cardinal ] n. the number designating place in an ordered ...
Usage examples of ordinal.
In fact, Angela left us for a good half hour to flirt with Lord Jude, while Marian and I endured the company of Ordinal of Wirsten for even longer.
He had not had as much experience as Ordinal, it was true, but he had been married twice.
However, it turns out that most ordinals end in -ëa, displacing the final vowel of the corresponding cardinal number.
Their basic mathematics, incidentally, begins with ordinal and not cardinal numbers, and the mathematics of cardinal numbers is regarded as a limiting case imposed on more intuitively accepted ordinalities.
Their basic mathematics, incidentally, begins with ordinal and not cardinal numbers, and the mathematics of cardinal numbers is regarded as a limiting case imposed on more intuitively acceptable ordinalities.
The ordinal numbers of the popes seems to decide the question against Clement VII.
Dodgson’s verse refers to the girls in Latin ordinals according to the ages.
Differerent types of atmospheres lead to different ordinal categories of X-junctions (cf.