ordinal

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There are 25 Helena Drives in Brentwood, each a cul-de-sac preceded by a different ordinal number — 7th, 19th, etc.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2024

The contexts of some problems called on the cardinal properties of numbers -- the quantity of elements in a set -- others on their ordinal properties -- their position in an ordered list.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2024

“The only way a person could determine an elector’s ordinal position is by personally observing that elector cast his or her ballot.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2024

In other words, Mr. Forman invited applicants to observe, collect and then make ordinal sense of exactly the same jungle of information the U.S.

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2022

I refer to the logical identity which Dedekind first pointed out between the mathematical concept of the ordinal number of series and the philosophical concept of the formal structure of an ideally completed self.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various