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Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc.

The state or quality of being ordinal. [R.] Latham.

s one, two, three, etc., in distinction from first, second, third, etc., which are called ordinal numbers. -- Cardinal points (a) (Geol.) The four principal points of the compass, or intersections of the horizon with the meridian and the prime vertical circle, north, south east, and west. (b) (Astrol.) The rising and…

he term dimensions forms with the cardinal numbers a phrase equivalent to degree with the ordinal; thus, a2b2c is a term of five dimensions, or of the fifth degree.

Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.

Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.

Next in order after the forty-ninth; -- the ordinal of fifty.

Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.

Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.

Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place.

Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the thirdhour in the day. "The third night." Chaucer.

Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month.

Next in order after the twenty-ninth; the tenth after the twentieth; -- the ordinal of thirty; as, the thirtieth day of the month.

hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing.

Next in order after the eleventh; coming after eleven others; -- the ordinal of twelve.

n order after the nineteenth; tenth after the tenth; coming after nineteen others; -- the ordinal of twenty.

er or more than I would like; -- "I've told you umpteen times not to do that." umpteenth. Ordinal of umpteen, with corresponding signification.