cardinal numbers

Numbers that indicate the quantity of things in a group or set, but not the order or arrangement of those things. One, two, and one thousand are cardinal numbers. ( Compare ordinal numbers .)

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Example Sentences

The same is the case with some of the pronouns and many of the cardinal numbers.

And he has occupied himself in comparing these transfinite cardinal numbers.

Generally speaking, the greater part of the cardinal numbers are undeclined.

Few persons have an adequate idea of the important part the cardinal numbers are now playing in the cause of Liberty.

Fractionals are formed by adding the suffix -on (plus the endings o, a, or e as required) to the Cardinal Numbers.

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