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Meaning of "ordinal" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ORDINAL

(Orderly): from Late Latin ordinalis denoting order or place in a series, from Latin ordōorder.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ORDINAL

ordinal  [ˈɔːdɪnəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ORDINAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ordinal can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ORDINAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ordinal in the English dictionary

The first definition of ordinal in the dictionary is denoting a certain position in a sequence of numbers. Other definition of ordinal is of, relating to, or characteristic of an order in biological classification. Ordinal is also a book containing the forms of services for the ordination of ministers.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ORDINAL


altitudinal
ˌæltɪˈtjuːdɪnəl
anal
ˈeɪnəl
cardinal
ˈkɑːdɪnəl
coordinal
kəʊˈɔːdɪnəl
criminal
ˈkrɪmɪnəl
dinnle
ˈdɪnəl
final
ˈfaɪnəl
habitudinal
ˌhæbɪˈtjuːdɪnəl
latitudinal
ˌlætɪˈtjuːdɪnəl
libidinal
lɪˈbɪdɪnəl
longitudinal
ˌlɒndʒɪˈtjuːdɪnəl
nundinal
ˈnʌndɪnəl
original
əˈrɪdʒɪnəl
paludinal
pəˈljuːdɪnəl
platitudinal
ˌplætɪˈtjuːdɪnəl
subcardinal
sʌbˈkɑːdɪnəl
subordinal
sʌbˈɔːdɪnəl
superordinal
ˌsuːpərˈɔːdɪnəl
terminal
ˈtɜːmɪnəl
testudinal
tɛˈstjuːdɪnəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ORDINAL

ordinaire
ordinal number
ordinal scale
ordinally
ordinance
ordinand
ordinant
ordinaries
ordinarily
ordinariness
ordinary
ordinary degree
Ordinary grade
ordinary lay
Ordinary level
Ordinary National Certificate
Ordinary National Diploma
ordinary rating
ordinary ray
ordinary seaman

WORDS THAT END LIKE ORDINAL

abdominal
aboriginal
attitudinal
Cup Final
gastrointestinal
grand final
intestinal
marginal
matinal
medicinal
nominal
quarterfinal
retinal
rhodinal
semifinal
seminal
spinal
subliminal
the Cup Final
urinal

Synonyms and antonyms of ordinal in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ordinal» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ORDINAL

Find out the translation of ordinal to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ordinal from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ordinal» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ordinal
570 millions of speakers

English

ordinal
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

क्रमसूचक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ترتيبي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

порядковый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ordinal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পূরণবাচক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ordinal
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ordinal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ordnungs-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

序数
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

서수
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ordinal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thứ tự
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வரிசையெண்ணுக்குரியவை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्रमवाचक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sıra
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ordinale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

porządkowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

порядковий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ordinal
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τακτικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ordinale
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ordinal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ordens
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ordinal

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ORDINAL»

The term «ordinal» is quite widely used and occupies the 40.570 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ORDINAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ordinal

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ORDINAL»

Discover the use of ordinal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ordinal and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Analysis of Ordinal Categorical Data
Additional features of this Second Edition include: A new chapter on marginal models for multivariate ordinal responses, using maximum likelihood and generalized estimating equations for model fitting A new chapter on random effects models ...
Alan Agresti, 2012
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Ordinal Data Modeling
A unique feature of this text is its emphasis on applications. All models developed in the book are motivated by real datasets, and considerable attention is devoted to the description of diagnostic plots and residual analyses.
Valen E. Johnson, James H. Albert, 1999
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Ordinal Methods for Behavioral Data Analysis
ORDINAL METHODS MAKE SENSE Statistical and psychometric methods that make use of only the ordinal information provided by the data enjoyed a brief flurry of popularity during the middle of the current century, but their use has ...
Norman Cliff, 2014
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Ordinal Optimization: Soft Optimization for Hard Problems
This book will establish distinct advantages of the 'softer' ordinal approach for search-based type problems, analyze its general properties, and show the many orders of magnitude improvement in computational efficiency that is possible.
Yu-Chi Ho, Qian-Chuan Zhao, Qing-Shan Jia, 2008
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Analysis of Ordinal Data
Ordinal data can be rank ordered but not assumed to have equal distances between categories. Using support by judges for civil rights measures and bussing as the primary example, this paper indicates how such data can best be analyzed.
David K. Hildebrand, James .D Laing, Howard Rosenthal, 1977
6
Transition to an Ordinal Metaphysics
This book presents the principles and categories of an ordinal metaphysics in relation to the metaphysical tradition and contemporary issues.
Stephen David Ross, 1980
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Ordinal Measurement in the Behavioral Sciences
This book provides an alternative method for measuring individual differences in psychological, educational, and other behavioral sciences studies.
Norman Cliff, John A. Keats, 2003
8
Ordinal and Relational Clustering
This book proclaims several firsts — the first to present a broad mathematical treatment of the subject, the first that illustrates dissimilarities taking values in a poset, and the first to notice the connection with formal concept ...
Melvin F. Janowitz, 2010
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Ordinal and Symbolic Data Analysis: Proceedings of the ...
The subject of this book is the ordinal and symbolic approach to data analysis that has particularly emphasized the intentional background of data which is necessary for validation, interpretation and communication.
Edwin Diday, Yves Lechevallier, Otto Opitz, 1996
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Ordinal Item Response Theory: Mokken Scale Analysis
In addition, this volume also discusses parametric item response theory and latent class analysis. This monograph is less technical than many books on the market and is best suited for an introductory course in social science measurement"--
Wijbrandt van Schuur, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ORDINAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ordinal is used in the context of the following news items.
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A robust multiple-locus method for quantitative trait locus analysis of …
According to normal residual errors in equation (1), the classical ordinal least squares (OLS) seek the minimization of an l2 objective function: ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
2
Telegenetics use in presymptomatic genetic counselling: patient …
Median (IQR) was used for variables with skewed distribution and n (%) was used for both ordinal and nominal variables. Mean item scores per ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
3
Sheree Whitfield and Fantasia Barrino Replacing NeNe on 'RHOA?'
... if they are interested,” an LA Late source said, adding, “Sheeree's ordinal departure, and replacement with Kenya Moore, came as Whitfield's ... «Eurweb.com, Jul 15»
4
Patient age, remission status and HCT-CI in a combined score are …
For the continuous variable age at transplant and for the ordinal variable HCT-CI score, binary recursive partitioning was first performed and the ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
5
Ranking Pitcher Value
FG RA-9 WAR is not exactly the same as bWAR, but the ordinal rankings in RA-9 WAR and bWAR are quite similar. What I decided to do was ... «AZ Snake Pit, Jul 15»
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Advance Base shares new song “Pamela” — listen
... and recorded a slew of band's for his label Ordinal Records. Now, he's returning to Advance Base and preparing to release his latest album, ... «Consequence of Sound, Jul 15»
7
Best practices in using RESTful services
To version your API you can use a simple ordinal number and avoid decimal notations like 1.2 or 1.5, etc. The following URL shows how a ... «InfoWorld, Jul 15»
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Assessment of the Chinese Resident Health Literacy Scale in a …
It specifies a nonlinear relationship between binary, ordinal, or categorical responses and the latent trait (health literacy in this case). Compared ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jul 15»
9
The Beatles, “I'm Only Sleeping” from Revolver (1966): Deep Beatles
Ultimately, five mixes were created: the ordinal mono and stereo mixes, the US stereo and mono mixes, and according to Robert Fontenot, ... «Something Else! Reviews, Jul 15»
10
Make Your Damages Numbers Meaningful - Juries, Awards, and …
... found a strong "ordinal" relationship between injury severity and award amounts: More extreme injuries lead to higher awards, and vice versa ... «The National Law Review, Jul 15»

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