The difference between Cardinal and Ordinal number

When used as nouns, cardinal means one of the officials appointed by the pope in the , ranking only below the and the , constituting the special college which elects the pope. (see wikipedia article on catholic cardinals.), whereas ordinal number means a word that expresses the relative position of an item in a sequence.

Cardinal is also adjective with the meaning: of fundamental importance.

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  1. Cardinal as an adjective:

    Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.

    Examples:

    "a cardinal rule"

  2. Cardinal as an adjective (nautical):

    Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).

    Examples:

    "a cardinal mark"

  3. Cardinal as an adjective:

    Describing a "natural" number used to indicate quantity (e.g., one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.

  4. Cardinal as an adjective:

    Having a bright red color (from the color of a Catholic cardinal's cassock).

  1. Cardinal as a noun (Roman Catholic):

    One of the officials appointed by the pope in the , ranking only below the and the , constituting the special college which elects the pope. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.)

  2. Cardinal as a noun:

    Any of a genus of songbirds of the finch family, Cardinalis.

  3. Cardinal as a noun:

    Any of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See Wikipedia article on cardinals) and other similar birds that were once considered to be related.

  4. Cardinal as a noun (color):

    A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than , the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. }}

    Examples:

    "color paneC41E3A"

  5. Cardinal as a noun (math):

    a indicating quantity, or the size of a set (e.g., one, two, three).

  6. Cardinal as a noun (grammar):

    a used to represent a cardinal number.

  7. Cardinal as a noun:

    (), a flowering plant.

  8. Cardinal as a noun:

    (), a freshwater fish.

  9. Cardinal as a noun (historical):

    A woman's short with a , originally made of scarlet cloth.

  10. Cardinal as a noun (obsolete):

    Mulled red wine.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Hotten"

  1. Ordinal number as a noun (grammar):

    A word that expresses the relative position of an item in a sequence.

    Examples:

    "First, second and third are the ordinal numbers corresponding to one, two and three."

  2. Ordinal number as a noun (arithmetic):

    A natural number used to denote position in a sequence.

    Examples:

    "In the expression a<sub>3</sub>, the "3" is an ordinal number. "

  3. Ordinal number as a noun (set theory):

    Such a number generalised to correspond to any cardinal number (the size of some set); formally, the order type of some well-ordered set of some cardinality a, which represents an equivalence class of well-ordered sets (exactly those of cardinality a) under the equivalence relation "existence of an order-preserving bijection".

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