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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

기수

Pronunciation / Transliteration: gisu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Cardinal number/ˈkɑːdɪnəl ˈnʌmbə/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"하나, 둘, 셋은 대표적인 기수입니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A number that expresses amount or quantity, such as one, two, three, etc., as opposed to an ordinal number.

    "In the phrase 'three cats', the word 'three' is a cardinal number."
  2. 2

    In set theory, a cardinal number is a measure of the size of a set, determined by the number of elements it contains.

    "The cardinal number of the set containing vowels in the English alphabet is five."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'cardinalis' meaning 'principal' or 'hinge' (from 'cardo', meaning 'door hinge'), combined with 'number' from Middle English and Old French 'nombre'. Historically used in ecclesiastical contexts to denote principal clergy before being adopted into mathematics to designate numbers expressing quantity.

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