"cardinality" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-cardinality.wav Forms: cardinalities [plural]
Etymology: From cardinal + -ity. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|cardinal|ity}} cardinal + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} cardinality (countable and uncountable, plural cardinalities)
  1. (set theory, of a set) The number of elements a given set contains. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Set theory Synonyms: power Translations ((set theory)): հզորություն (hzorutʻyun) (Armenian), 勢 /势 (shì) (Chinese Mandarin), mohutnost [feminine] (Czech), kardinalita [feminine] (Czech), mægtighed (Danish), kardinalitet [common-gender] (Danish), kardinaliteit [feminine] (Dutch), võimsus (Estonian), mahtavuus (Finnish), cardinalité [feminine] (French), Mächtigkeit [feminine] (German), Kardinalität [feminine] (German), πληθάριθμος (plithárithmos) [masculine] (Greek), עָצְמָה [feminine] (Hebrew), प्रमुखता (pramukhtā) (Hindi), számosság (Hungarian), fjöldatala [feminine] (Icelandic), bunuimhreacht [feminine] (Irish), cardinalità [feminine] (Italian), numerosità [feminine] (Italian), potenza [feminine] (Italian), 濃度 (nōdo) (alt: のうど) (Japanese), жиын қуаты (jiyn quaty) (Kazakh), 집합의 크기 (jiphabui keugi) (Korean), 농도 (nongdo) (alt: 濃度) (Korean), моќност (moḱnost) [feminine] (Macedonian), kardinalitet (Norwegian), liczebność [feminine] (Polish), moc [feminine] (Polish), cardinalidade [feminine] (Portuguese), cardinalitate [feminine] (Romanian), mărime (potențială) [feminine] (Romanian), мо́щность (alt: мно́жества) [feminine] (Russian), mohutnosť [feminine] (Slovak), moč množice (Slovene), cardinalidad [feminine] (Spanish), kardinalitet [common-gender] (Swedish), எண் அளவை (eṇ aḷavai) (Tamil), ภาวะเชิงการนับ (p̣hāwa cheing kār nạb) (Thai), потужність (potužnistʹ) [feminine, inanimate] (Ukrainian), lực lượng (Vietnamese), lực lượng của một tập hợp (Vietnamese)
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  2. (type theory) The number of terms that can inhabit a type; the possible values of a type. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  3. (data modeling, databases) The property of a relationship between a database table and another one, specifying whether it is one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Data modeling, Databases
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  4. (religion) The status of being cardinalitial Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Religion
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: cardinal, aleph, cardinal number, multiplicity

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  "msg": "more than one value in \"alt\": móščnostʹ (mnóžestva) vs. мно́жества",
  "path": [
    "cardinality"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "cardinality",
  "trace": ""
}

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