Cardinal Number (definition)

Numbers that are used in the syntactical sense for denoting a quantity. . For example, in the sentence, "That cool cat had three chicks" Three is a cardinal number, as a opposed to ordinal numbers which indicate order, as in first, second, and third, or numerals which are the specific words in a language that represent a number, like the word one-hundred.

See also

• Ordinal Number (definition)
• Numerals

External Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_numbers