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cardinal number

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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ˌcardinal ˈnumber (also cardinal) noun [countable]  HMNa number such as 1,2, or 3, that shows how many of something there are, but not what order they are in 基数 ordinal number
Examples from the Corpus
cardinal numberAnd so ostensibly are the greatest cardinal number and the abominable snowman.Like the greatest cardinal number, Russell's class similarly fails to satisfy the requirement of coherence.Take the familiar mathematical example of the greatest cardinal number.
ˌcardinal ˈnumber nounChineseSyllable
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cardinal number
ˌcardinal ˈnumber (also cardinal) noun [countable]
a number such as 1, 2, or 3, that shows how many of something there are, but not what order they are in
ordinal number