cardinal numbers

1. 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.)

Example Sentences

For example, in addition to the cardinal numbers described here, many other infinite cardinalities lying between ℵ1 and the continuum have been discovered since the 1940s.

From Scientific American

Chapters in books are usually given the cardinal numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and so on.

From Literature

This attaching to the cardinal numbers above three or four the meanings of the ordinal numbers seems to affect many children on entrance to school.

From Project Gutenberg

This whole process is familiar; it gives the series of the positive whole numbers, that is, the cardinal numbers.

From Project Gutenberg

Few persons have an adequate idea of the important part the cardinal numbers are now playing in the cause of Liberty.

From Project Gutenberg