Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an ordinal way; in regard to order.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
ordinal manner.
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Examples
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The following two posts followed each other ordinally on TPM-EC.
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The following two posts followed each other ordinally on TPM-EC.
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Hicks had expressed great doubts over the state of ‘welfare economics’ — a subject to which he had contributed a great deal, particularly as he urged the estimation of ‘utility’ ordinally rather than cardinally.
Herman Daly Festschrift~ Hicksian income, welfare, and the steady state 2009
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Among Vertebrates there is no ordinally distinct fossil fish: there is only one extinct order of Amphibia — the Labyrinthodonts; but there are at least four distinct orders of Reptilia, viz. the Ichthyosauria,
Essays 2007
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Note to self: do not attempt ordinally numbering your points when 'shooting from the hip'.
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These can be compared or ranked ordinally, since the diagonal is longer.
Incommensurable Values Hsieh, Nien-hê 2007
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QE is ordinally similar to P when restricted to hypotheses that entail E, and that
Bayes' Theorem Joyce, James 2003
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P are ordinally similar with respect to hypotheses that entail
Bayes' Theorem Joyce, James 2003
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It is then a simple step to show that all four measures of incremental support agree ordinally on questions of effective evidence and of differentials in incremental evidence.
Bayes' Theorem Joyce, James 2003
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So, Q is ordinally similar to P both when restricted to hypotheses that entail E and when restricted to hypotheses than entail ~E.
Bayes' Theorem Joyce, James 2003
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