ALL meanings of cardinal numbers
car·di·nal Num·bers
C c - noun cardinal numbers Also called cardinal numeral. any of the numbers that express amount, as one, two, three, etc. (distinguished from ordinal number). 1
- noun cardinal numbers Also called potency, power. Mathematics. a number or symbol analogous to the number of elements in a finite set, being identical for two sets that can be placed into one-to-one correspondence: The cardinal number of the set a1, a2, … an is n. 1
- noun cardinal numbers plural of cardinal number. 0