ordinal
adjective/ˈɔːdɪnl/
/ˈɔːrdənl/
- referring to or connected with the position of something in a series
- the ordinal numbers
- a five-point ordinal scale
Oxford Collocations DictionaryOrdinal is used with these nouns:- number
Word OriginMiddle English: from late Latin ordinalis ‘relating to order in a series’, from Latin ordo, ordin- ‘row, series, rank’.Definitions on the go
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