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cardinal numbers
- Numbers that indicate the quantity of things in a group or set, but not the order or arrangement of those things. One, two, and one thousand are cardinal numbers. ( Compare ordinal numbers .)
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The same is the case with some of the pronouns and many of the cardinal numbers.
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And he has occupied himself in comparing these transfinite cardinal numbers.
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Generally speaking, the greater part of the cardinal numbers are undeclined.
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Few persons have an adequate idea of the important part the cardinal numbers are now playing in the cause of Liberty.
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Fractionals are formed by adding the suffix -on (plus the endings o, a, or e as required) to the Cardinal Numbers.
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