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Ordinal Indicator
In written languages, an ordinal indicator is a character, or group of characters, following a numeral denoting that it is an ordinal number, rather than a cardinal number. In English orthography, this corresponds to the suffixes ''-st'', ''-nd'', ''-rd'', ''-th'' in written ordinals (represented either on the line ''1st'', ''2nd'', ''3rd'', ''4th'' or as superscript, ). Also commonly encountered are the superscript or superior (and often underlined) masculine ordinal indicator, , and feminine ordinal indicator, , originally from Romance and then via the cultural influence of Italian, as in 1º '' primo'' and 1ª '' prima''. In correct typography, the ordinal indicators and should be distinguishable from other characters. The practice of underlined (or doubly underlined) superscripted abbreviations was common in 19th-century writing (not limited to ordinal indicators in particular, and also extant in the numero sign ), and was also found in handwritten English until at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circle Symbol (other)
Circle symbol may refer to (in ascending order of size, approximately): * , ring diacritic * , white bullet * , function composition * , degree symbol * , masculine ordinal indicator *, music symbol denoting either a diminished triad or diminished seventh chord * , superscript lowercase letter o * , white circle Unicode symbol * , dotted circle * , lowercase vowel letters in the Latin, Greek (omicron), and Cyrillic alphabets * , Semitic/Phoenician letter Ayin, the ancestor of the Greek, Latin, Cyrillic etc. letters * , uppercase vowel letters in the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets * , heavy circle Unicode symbol * , O mark, large circle Unicode symbol * , medium white circle Unicode symbol See also *Circle (other) * Degree symbol#Lookalikes *O (other) * O#Related characters * 0 (the number zero) *Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B is a Unicode block containing miscellaneous mathematical symbols, including brackets, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ordinal & Degree
Ordinal may refer to: * Ordinal data, a statistical data type consisting of numerical scores that exist on an arbitrary numerical scale * Ordinal date, a simple form of expressing a date using only the year and the day number within that year * Ordinal Priority Approach, a multiple-criteria decision analysis method that aids in solving the group decision-making problems * Ordinal indicator, the sign adjacent to a numeral denoting that it is an ordinal number * Ordinal number in set theory, a number type with order structures * Ordinal number (linguistics), a word representing the rank of a number * Ordinal scale, ranking things that are not necessarily numbers * Ordinal utility (economics): a utility function which is used only to describe the preference ordering between different outcomes. Government * Regnal ordinal, used to distinguish monarchs and popes with the same regnal name Religion * Edwardine Ordinals, two early liturgical books of the Church of England * O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
