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Cardinal number

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Noun
  1. 1
    A number used to denote quantity; a counting number; a cardinal.

    "The smallest cardinal numbers are 0, 1, 2, and 3."

  2. 2
    (grammar) A word that expresses a countable quantity. wordnet
  3. 3
    A generalized kind of number used to denote the size of a set, including infinite sets.

    "This cardinal number is the smallest of the infinite cardinal numbers; it is the one to which Cantor has appropriated the Hebrew Aleph with the suffix 0, to distinguish it from larger infinite cardinals. Thus the name of the smallest of infinite cardinals is ℵ₀."

  4. 4
    the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order wordnet
  5. 5
    A word that expresses a countable quantity; a cardinal numeral.

    "“Three” is a cardinal number, while “third” is an ordinal number."

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