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cardinal number (encz) | cardinal number,kardinální číslo Zdeněk Brož |
Cardinal number (gcide) | Number \Num"ber\ (n[u^]m"b[~e]r), n. [OE. nombre, F. nombre, L.
numerus; akin to Gr. no`mos that which is dealt out, fr.
ne`mein to deal out, distribute. See Numb, Nomad, and cf.
Numerate, Numero, Numerous.]
1. That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or
an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection
of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things
expressible by figures.
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2. A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a
multitude; many.
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Ladies are always of great use to the party they
espouse, and never fail to win over numbers.
--Addison.
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3. A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to
put a number on a door.
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4. Numerousness; multitude.
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Number itself importeth not much in armies where the
people are of weak courage. --Bacon.
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5. The state or quality of being numerable or countable.
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Of whom came nations, tribes, people, and kindreds
out of number. --2 Esdras
iii. 7.
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6. Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate
things.
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7. That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as
divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry,
verse; -- chiefly used in the plural.
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I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. --Pope.
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8. (Gram.) The distinction of objects, as one, or more than
one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two),
expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word;
thus, the singular number and the plural number are the
names of the forms of a word indicating the objects
denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than
one.
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9. (Math.) The measure of the relation between quantities or
things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity
which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical
value.
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Abstract number, Abundant number, Cardinal number, etc.
See under Abstract, Abundant, etc.
In numbers, in numbered parts; as, a book published in
numbers.
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cardinal number (wn) | cardinal number
n 1: the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a
quantity but not the order [syn: cardinal number,
cardinal] |
cardinal number (foldoc) | cardinal number
The cardinality of some set.
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cardinal number (encz) | cardinal number,kardinální číslo Zdeněk Brož |
Cardinal numbers (gcide) | Cardinal \Car"di*nal\, a. [L. cardinalis, fr. cardo the hinge of
a door, that on which a thing turns or depends: cf. F.
cardinal.]
Of fundamental importance; pre["e]minent; superior; chief;
principal.
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The cardinal intersections of the zodiac. --Sir T.
Browne.
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Impudence is now a cardinal virtue. --Drayton.
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But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye.
--Shak.
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Cardinal numbers, the numbers one, two, three, etc., in
distinction from first, second, third, etc., which are
called ordinal numbers.
Cardinal points
(a) (Geol.) The four principal points of the compass, or
intersections of the horizon with the meridian and the
prime vertical circle, north, south east, and west.
(b) (Astrol.) The rising and setting of the sun, the zenith
and nadir.
Cardinal signs (Astron.) Aries, Libra, Cancer, and
Capricorn.
Cardinal teeth (Zool.), the central teeth of bivalve shell.
See Bivalve.
Cardinal veins (Anat.), the veins in vertebrate embryos,
which run each side of the vertebral column and returm the
blood to the heart. They remain through life in some
fishes.
Cardinal virtues, pre["e]minent virtues; among the
ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude.
Cardinal winds, winds which blow from the cardinal points
due north, south, east, or west.
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cardinal number (wn) | cardinal number
n 1: the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a
quantity but not the order [syn: cardinal number,
cardinal] |
cardinal number (foldoc) | cardinal number
The cardinality of some set.
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