English-Finnish translations for ordinal number

• järjestysluku
  Kolmas on järjestysluku.
  Protonien lukumäärä määrää alkuaineen järjestysluvun eli niin kutsutun atomiluvun.
• järjestyslukusana
• ordinaali
• ordinaaliluku
  Numerona esitetyn ordinaaliluvun loppuun tulee piste.
• ordinaalilukusana

Definition of ordinal number

• A word that expresses the relative position of an item in a sequence
• A natural number used to denote position in a sequence
• Such a number generalised to correspond to any cardinal number ; ''formally'', the order type of some well-ordered set of some cardinality ''a'', which represents an equivalence class of well-ordered sets under the equivalence relation "existence of an order-preserving bijection

Examples

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

Related words

• ordinal
• ordinal indicator
• ordinal variable
• ordinal numeral
• limit ordinal