cardinal numbern.

Brit.

/ˌkɑːdᵻnəl ˈnʌmbə/,

/ˌkɑːdn̩əl ˈnʌmbə/,

/ˌkɑːdn̩l̩ ˈnʌmbə/, U.S.

/ˌkɑrdn̩əl ˈnəmbər/,

/ˌkɑrdənəl ˈnəmbər/

Forms: see cardinal adj. and number n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; originally modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: cardinal adj., number n.

Etymology: < cardinal adj. + number n., in sense 1 after post-classical Latin numerus cardinalis (5th or 6th cent. in Priscian). Compare French nombre cardinal (1604 or earlier). Compare earlier cardinal n. 5.

1. Originally (Grammar): a word denoting a countable quantity, answering the question ‘how many?’ (one, two, three, etc.); = cardinal numeral n. at cardinal adj. Compounds. Later also (in abstract and mathematical uses): an arithmetical value corresponding to such a word; a natural number.Often contrasted with ordinal number (see ordinal adj. 2).

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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > cardinal

cardinal number1590

1590 J. Thorius tr. A. del Corro Spanish Grammer 32 The last sort of number be adverbiall numbers, adding to the cardinall number [Sp. los cardinales] this word, foys, as un fois, deux fois.

1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 277 Third is an Adjective, and is call'd an Ordinal Number, as Three is a cardinal number.

1801 Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Mag. Feb. 230 To suppose the dividend an ordinal, when it cannot be denied, that the divisor is a cardinal number, appears..very much like an absurdity.

1831 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 17 334 An act of sub-multipling or (more fully) of sub-multipling by the same determining cardinal number by which the base had been multiplied before.

1889 J. H. French Adv. Arithm. for Secondary Schools Introd. 11 A cardinal number is any abstract integer.

1905 Womanhood Apr. 302/1 For the distributives, the cardinal numbers are used unchanged, but preceded by po (a preposition meaning ‘at the rate of’ [in Esperanto]).

2005 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 27 Mar. (Books section) 1 h Carle's is a what-if story that..introduces his readers to ordinal and cardinal numbers and ocean life.

2. Mathematics. Any of a collection of mathematical entities used to represent the sizes of sets (set n.² 10c), including those of infinite size.For sets of finite size, the cardinal numbers are simply the natural numbers (cf. sense 1).Cf. aleph n. 2.

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1902 Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 446 From this theorem it would follow at once that the continuum has the next cardinal number beyond that of the countable assemblage.

2007 J. N. Crossley & D. Leigh-Lancaster Growing Ideas of Number v. 54 Ordinal numbers, and cardinal numbers, can be added and multiplied, though the results do not always come out exactly as might be expected.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	cardinal number
释义	cardinal numbern. Brit. /ˌkɑːdᵻnəl ˈnʌmbə/, /ˌkɑːdn̩əl ˈnʌmbə/, /ˌkɑːdn̩l̩ ˈnʌmbə/, U.S. /ˌkɑrdn̩əl ˈnəmbər/, /ˌkɑrdənəl ˈnəmbər/ Forms: see cardinal adj. and number n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; originally modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: cardinal adj., number n. Etymology: < cardinal adj. + number n., in sense 1 after post-classical Latin numerus cardinalis (5th or 6th cent. in Priscian). Compare French nombre cardinal (1604 or earlier). Compare earlier cardinal n. 5. 1. Originally (Grammar): a word denoting a countable quantity, answering the question ‘how many?’ (one, two, three, etc.); = cardinal numeral n. at cardinal adj. Compounds. Later also (in abstract and mathematical uses): an arithmetical value corresponding to such a word; a natural number.Often contrasted with ordinal number (see ordinal adj. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > cardinal cardinal number1590 1590 J. Thorius tr. A. del Corro Spanish Grammer 32 The last sort of number be adverbiall numbers, adding to the cardinall number [Sp. los cardinales] this word, foys, as un fois, deux fois. 1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 277 Third is an Adjective, and is call'd an Ordinal Number, as Three is a cardinal number. 1801 Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Mag. Feb. 230 To suppose the dividend an ordinal, when it cannot be denied, that the divisor is a cardinal number, appears..very much like an absurdity. 1831 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 17 334 An act of sub-multipling or (more fully) of sub-multipling by the same determining cardinal number by which the base had been multiplied before. 1889 J. H. French Adv. Arithm. for Secondary Schools Introd. 11 A cardinal number is any abstract integer. 1905 Womanhood Apr. 302/1 For the distributives, the cardinal numbers are used unchanged, but preceded by po (a preposition meaning ‘at the rate of’ [in Esperanto]). 2005 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 27 Mar. (Books section) 1 h Carle's is a what-if story that..introduces his readers to ordinal and cardinal numbers and ocean life. 2. Mathematics. Any of a collection of mathematical entities used to represent the sizes of sets (set n.² 10c), including those of infinite size.For sets of finite size, the cardinal numbers are simply the natural numbers (cf. sense 1).Cf. aleph n. 2. ΚΠ 1902 Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 446 From this theorem it would follow at once that the continuum has the next cardinal number beyond that of the countable assemblage. 2007 J. N. Crossley & D. Leigh-Lancaster Growing Ideas of Number v. 54 Ordinal numbers, and cardinal numbers, can be added and multiplied, though the results do not always come out exactly as might be expected. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1590
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