ordinal
51Ordinal de Feferman-Schütte — En mathématiques, et plus précisément en théorie des ensembles, l’ordinal de Feferman–Schütte, noté Γ0, est un grand ordinal dénombrable, étudié par Solomon Feferman (en) et Kurt Schütte (en). Définition L …
52Ordinal numerical competence — In human developmental psychology or non human primate experiments, ordinal numerical competence or ordinal numerical knowledge refers to the ability to count objects in order and to understand the greater than and less than relationships between …
53ordinal number — noun a) A word that expresses the relative position of an item in an ordered sequence. First, second and third are the ordinal numbers corresponding to one, two and three. b) A number used to denote position in a sequence …
54Ordinal logic — In mathematics, ordinal logic is a logic associated with an ordinal number by recursively adding elements to a sequence of previous logics.[1][2] The concept was introduced in 1938 by Alan Turing in his PhD dissertation at Princeton in view of… …
55Ordinal, The — The name given to that portion of the Prayer Book containing the Offices for the consecration of Bishops and the ordination of Priests and Deacons. The Ordinal being what it is, is very properly prefaced with a statement of the witness of… …
56ordinal number — [[t]ɔ͟ː(r)dɪn(ə)l nʌ̱mbə(r)[/t]] ordinal numbers N COUNT An ordinal number or an ordinal is a word such as first , third , and tenth that tells you where a particular thing occurs in a sequence of things. Compare cardinal number …
57ordinal number — UK [ˈɔː(r)dɪn(ə)l ˌnʌmbə(r)] / US [ˈɔrd(ə)nəl ˌnʌmbər] noun [countable] Word forms ordinal number : singular ordinal number plural ordinal numbers maths a number such as first or second that shows what position something has in a series See:… …
58ordinal number — noun the number designating place in an ordered sequence • Syn: ↑ordinal, ↑no. • Derivationally related forms: ↑ordinal (for: ↑ordinal) • Hypernyms: ↑number …
59Ordinal data type — In computer programming, an ordinal data type is a data type with the property that its values can be counted. That is, the values can be put in a one to one correspondence with the positive integers. For example, characters are ordinal because… …
60ordinal-linguistic personification — (OLP) A term used to denote a form of synaesthesia in which individual members of ordered sequences, such as ordinal numbers, days, months, and letters, are associated with personalities. Although the phenomenon itself was described as early… …
