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10 Language-to-English Dictionaries基数
Pronunciation / Transliteration: jīshù
"基数用来表示事物的数量。"
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A number that expresses amount or quantity, such as one, two, three, etc., as opposed to an ordinal number.
"In the phrase 'three cats', the word 'three' is a cardinal number." - 2
In set theory, a cardinal number is a measure of the size of a set, determined by the number of elements it contains.
"The cardinal number of the set containing vowels in the English alphabet is five."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the Latin 'cardinalis' meaning 'principal' or 'hinge' (from 'cardo', meaning 'door hinge'), combined with 'number' from Middle English and Old French 'nombre'. Historically used in ecclesiastical contexts to denote principal clergy before being adopted into mathematics to designate numbers expressing quantity.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Cardinal number" is said worldwide
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nombre cardinal
Transliteration: nɔ̃bʁ kaʁdinal
"Un, deux et trois sont des nombres cardinaux."
Kardinalzahl
Transliteration: kaʁdiˈnaːlˌtsaːl
"Kardinalzahlen geben die Anzahl von Elementen in einer Menge an."
numero cardinale
Transliteration: ˈnumero kardinale
"Il numero cardinale indica la quantità."
número cardinal
Transliteration: ˈnumeɾo kaɾðiˈnal
"Diez es un número cardinal que expresa cantidad."
número cardinal
Transliteration: ˈnumɛɾu kaɾdiˈnaw
"Os números cardinais são usados para contagem."
गणनीय संख्या
Transliteration: gananiya sankhya
"एक, दो, तीन आदि गणनीय संख्याएँ हैं।"
基数
Transliteration: jīshù
"基数用来表示事物的数量。"
기수
Transliteration: gisu
"하나, 둘, 셋은 대표적인 기수입니다."
基数
Transliteration: kisuu
"基数は個数や数量を表す数です。"
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