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单词 ordinal
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Definition of ordinal in English:

ordinal

noun ˈɔːdɪn(ə)lˈɔrdnəl
  • 1

    short for ordinal number
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Form numbers are conceived as ordinals, with units conceived as being well ordered.
    • Having solved the open problem posed by Davenport on writing numbers as the sums of fifth powers, Conway began to become interested in infinite ordinals.
    • In this latter book she presented a 30 page appendix on the theory of infinite cardinals and ordinals.
    • In 1907 he introduced special types of ordinals in an attempt to prove Cantor's continuum hypothesis.
    • In his work he clarified a remark by Russell and formulated precisely the paradox of the largest ordinal.
  • 2Christian Church
    historical A service book, especially one with the forms of service used at ordinations.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The report continues with a discussion of the various ministries of deacons, including the basis as expressed in the ordinal at ordination in a new trial liturgy in the Diocese of Salisbury.
adjective ˈɔːdɪn(ə)lˈɔrdnəl
  • 1Relating to the order of something in a series.

    ordinal scales
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The answers were transformed to an ordinal scale with values from 0 to 6.
    • The Mann-Whitney U test is appropriate when the independent variable has two levels and the dependent variable is measured on an ordinal scale.
    • Children were asked whether they could determine, based on their ordinal position within different classes and families, which of two turtles was faster or taller.
    • Data indicating familial and ordinal positions are not available.
    • To account for this bias, we transformed the outcome variables to an ordinal scale with 5 categories.
    1. 1.1 Relating to an ordinal number.
  • 2Biology
    Relating to a taxonomic order.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The present study suggests that tube-foot morphology may be useful as a taxonomic character at the ordinal level.
    • The same procedure was followed for the two most abundant taxa identified at the ordinal level.
    • Mammalian phylogenetics at the ordinal level remains one of the outstanding problems in systematics because of the lack of congruence between different data sets.
    • While all of the phyla but one were established during the Cambrian explosion, taxonomic increases during the Ordovician were manifest at lower taxonomic levels although ordinal level diversity doubled.
    • It is difficult to establish an accurate ordinal assignment of the taxa described above based on the current knowledge.

Origin

Middle English (in sense 2 of the noun): the noun from medieval Latin ordinale (neuter); the adjective from late Latin ordinalis 'relating to order in a series', from Latin ordo, ordin- (see order).

 
 

Definition of ordinal in US English:

ordinal

nounˈɔrdnəlˈôrdnəl
  • 1

    short for ordinal number
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Having solved the open problem posed by Davenport on writing numbers as the sums of fifth powers, Conway began to become interested in infinite ordinals.
    • In 1907 he introduced special types of ordinals in an attempt to prove Cantor's continuum hypothesis.
    • In this latter book she presented a 30 page appendix on the theory of infinite cardinals and ordinals.
    • In his work he clarified a remark by Russell and formulated precisely the paradox of the largest ordinal.
    • Form numbers are conceived as ordinals, with units conceived as being well ordered.
  • 2Christian Church
    historical A service book, especially one with the forms of service used at ordinations.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The report continues with a discussion of the various ministries of deacons, including the basis as expressed in the ordinal at ordination in a new trial liturgy in the Diocese of Salisbury.
adjectiveˈɔrdnəlˈôrdnəl
  • 1Relating to a thing's position in a series.

    ordinal position of birth
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Mann-Whitney U test is appropriate when the independent variable has two levels and the dependent variable is measured on an ordinal scale.
    • Children were asked whether they could determine, based on their ordinal position within different classes and families, which of two turtles was faster or taller.
    • To account for this bias, we transformed the outcome variables to an ordinal scale with 5 categories.
    • Data indicating familial and ordinal positions are not available.
    • The answers were transformed to an ordinal scale with values from 0 to 6.
    1. 1.1 Relating to an ordinal number.
    2. 1.2Biology Relating to a taxonomic order.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The present study suggests that tube-foot morphology may be useful as a taxonomic character at the ordinal level.
      • While all of the phyla but one were established during the Cambrian explosion, taxonomic increases during the Ordovician were manifest at lower taxonomic levels although ordinal level diversity doubled.
      • Mammalian phylogenetics at the ordinal level remains one of the outstanding problems in systematics because of the lack of congruence between different data sets.
      • The same procedure was followed for the two most abundant taxa identified at the ordinal level.
      • It is difficult to establish an accurate ordinal assignment of the taxa described above based on the current knowledge.

Origin

Middle English (in ordinal (sense 2 of the noun)): the noun from medieval Latin ordinale (neuter); the adjective from late Latin ordinalis ‘relating to order in a series’, from Latin ordo, ordin- (see order).

 
 
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