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ordinal number meaning in Tamil

வரிசை எண்

ordinal number in Tamil: வரிசை எண், வரிசையெண். In English, ordinal number means a word that expresses the relative position of an item in a sequence.

Tamil words for ordinal number

வரிசை எண், வரிசையெண்

English meaning of ordinal number

  1. noun A word that expresses the relative position of an item in a sequence.
  2. noun A natural number used to denote position in a sequence.
  3. noun Such a number generalised to correspond to any cardinal number (the size of some set); formally, the order type of some well-ordered set of some cardinality a, which represents an equivalence class of well-ordered sets (exactly those of cardinality a) under the equivalence relation "existence of an order-preserving bijection".

Full definition of ordinal number

ordinal number in a sentence

  • First, second and third are the ordinal numbers corresponding to one, two and three.
  • In the expression a₃, the "3" is an ordinal number.

Synonyms of ordinal number

ordinal number in other languages

Questions about ordinal number in Tamil

What is the meaning of ordinal number in Tamil?
Ordinal number in Tamil is வரிசை எண், வரிசையெண்.
ordinal number என்பதன் தமிழ் அர்த்தம் என்ன?
Ordinal number: வரிசை எண், வரிசையெண்.
What does ordinal number mean in English?
Ordinal number means a word that expresses the relative position of an item in a sequence.

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Tamil words from Tamil Wiktionary: ordinal number (page history and authors). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: ordinal number (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Tamil words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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