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cardinalities

cardinalities is the plural of cardinality.

Meaning of cardinality

Noun

cardinality (countable and uncountable, plural cardinalities)

  1. The number of elements a given set contains.
    • The empty set has a cardinality of zero.
    Synonyms:
    power
  2. (type theory) The number of terms that can inhabit a type; the possible values of a type.
    • For many types, such as String, the set of possible values is unlimited. Such types have an infinite cardinality.2021, Martin Odersky et al., chapter 19, in Programming in Scala, 5th edition, Artima, →ISBN
  3. (data modeling) The property of a relationship between a database table and another one, specifying whether it is one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many.
  4. The status of being cardinalitial

Questions about cardinalities

What is cardinalities the plural of?
Cardinalities is the plural of cardinality.

Words near cardinalities in the dictionary

  1. cardinalises
  2. cardinalising
  3. cardinalist
  4. cardinalists
  5. cardinalitial
  6. cardinalities
  7. cardinality
  8. cardinalization
  9. cardinalizations
  10. cardinalize
  11. cardinalized

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