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Ordinal   Listen
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Ordinal  adj.  
1.
Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc. Contrasted to cardinal.
2.
Of or pertaining to an order.






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"Ordinal" Quotes from Famous Books



... two hundred known orders of plants; of these not one is certainly known to exist exclusively in the fossil state. The whole lapse of geological time has as yet yielded not a single new ordinal type of ...
— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley

... these cases is exhibited by the imitation. There need be little or virtually no zoological affinity between the imitating and the imitated forms; that is to say, in some cases the zoological affinity is not closer than ordinal, and therefore cannot possibly be ascribed to kinship. Like all the other branches of the general subject of protective resemblance in form or colouring, this branch has already been so largely illustrated by previous writers, that, as in the previous cases, I need only ...
— Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) • George John Romanes



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