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Answer for the clue "Any number in a series ", 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
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 ...

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.