Ordinal

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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.