The difference between Multiplier and Ordinal number

When used as nouns, multiplier means a number by which another (the multiplicand) is to be multiplied, whereas ordinal number means a word that expresses the relative position of an item in a sequence.

check bellow for the other definitions of Multiplier and Ordinal number

  1. Multiplier as a noun (arithmetic):

    A number by which another (the multiplicand) is to be multiplied.

    Examples:

    "In the expression'' 5 × 7, ''the "5" is a multiplier."

    "The score multiplier increases each time you complete a level of the video game."

  2. Multiplier as a noun (grammar):

    An adjective indicating the number of times something is to be multiplied.

    Examples:

    "English multipliers include "double" and "triple"."

  3. Multiplier as a noun (economics):

    A ratio used to estimate total economic effect for a variety of economic activities.

  4. Multiplier as a noun (physics):

    Any of several devices used to enhance a signal a coil; when Johann Schweigger in 1820 invented the electric coil, increasing the electro-magnetic field from a single wire, this invention was called a multiplier.

  5. Multiplier as a noun:

    A multiplier onion.

  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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