cardinal number

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Noun

cardinal number (plural cardinal numbers)

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

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

   The cardinal number "three" can be represented as "3" or "three".

2. (mathematics) A generalized kind of number used to denote the size of a set, including infinite sets.
   • 1920, Bertrand Russell, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, strana 83:

3. (grammar) A word that expresses a countable quantity; a cardinal numeral.

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

Synonyms

• (number): cardinal
• (word): cardinal numeral

Coordinate terms

• (grammar): distributive number, multiplier, ordinal number

Translations

number denoting quantity

• Basque: zenbaki kardinal
• Catalan: nombre cardinal m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 基數／基数 (zh), 基数 (zh) (jīshù)

• Danish: kardinaltal n
• Esperanto: kardinalo
• Estonian: kardinaalarv
• Faroese: grundtal n
• Finnish: kardinaaliluku (fi), perusluku (fi)
• French: nombre cardinal (fr) m
• Galician: número cardinal m
• Georgian: რაოდენობითი რიცხვითი სახელი (raodenobiti ricxviti saxeli)
• German: Kardinalzahl (de) f, Grundzahl (de) f
• Greek: απόλυτος αριθμός m (apólytos arithmós)
• Hungarian: tőszám (hu)
• Icelandic: fjöldatala f, höfuðtala (is) f
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• Irish: bunuimhir f
• Italian: numero cardinale (it) m
• Japanese: 基数 (ja) (きすう, kisū)
• Korean: 기수 (ko) (gisu)
• Malay: nombor kardinal (ms)
• Maori: tau maha
• Portuguese: número cardinal m
• Romanian: numeral cardinal (ro) n, număr cardinal n
• Russian: kardinálьnoe čisló n (kardinálʹnoje čisló)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(molim proverite)} kardinalni broj m
• Spanish: número cardinal (es) m
• Swedish: kardinaltal (sv) n, grundtal (sv) n
• Tagalog: bilang na paulat
• Turkish: asıl sayı
• Vietnamese: số đếm
• Welsh: rhif prifol (cy)

number used to denote the size of a set

• Basque: zenbaki kardinal
• Catalan: nombre cardinal m
• Czech: kardinální číslo n
• Danish: kardinaltal n
• Estonian: hulga võimsus
• Finnish: kardinaaliluku (fi), perusluku (fi)
• French: nombre cardinal (fr) m
• Galician: número cardinal m
• German: Kardinalzahl (de) f, Grundzahl (de) f
• Hungarian: kardinális szám
• Icelandic: fjöldatala f, höfuðtala (is) f
• Irish: bunuimhir f
• Italian: numero cardinale (it) m
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• Japanese: 集合数 (しゅうごうすう, shūgōsū), 基数 (ja) (きすう, kisū)
• Malay: nombor kardinal (ms)
• Polish: liczba kardynalna f
• Portuguese: número cardinal m
• Romanian: cardinal (ro) n
• Russian: móщnostь mnóžestva f (móščnostʹ mnóžestva), kardinálьnoe čisló n (kardinálʹnoje čisló)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(molim proverite)} kardinalni broj m
• Spanish: número cardinal (es) m
• Swedish: kardinaltal (sv) n, grundtal (sv) n (if finite)
• Tagalog: bilang na paulat
• Turkish: asıl sayılar (tr)
• Vietnamese: số lượng (vi)

cardinal numeral — see cardinal numeral

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Translations to be checked

• Basque: ^{(molim proverite)} zenbaki kardinal
• Bengali: ^{(molim proverite)} অঙ্কবাচক সংখ্যা (ôṅkbacôk śôngkkha)
• Ido: ^{(molim proverite)} kardinala nombro
• Latin: ^{(molim proverite)} cardinale
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• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(molim proverite)} glavni broj m

  Roman: ^{(molim proverite)} glavni broj m, ^{(molim proverite)} kardinalni broj m

• Slovene: ^{(molim proverite)} kardinalno število n

Further reading

• cardinal number na Vikipediji.Vikipediji