Definition
ordinally
adverb
- In a manner relating to or based on ordinal numbers (first, second, third, etc.); according to order or sequence.
Usage: Primarily used in mathematics, linguistics, and formal contexts.
Examples
- The students were ordinally ranked from first to last based on their test scores.
- In linguistics, ordinally speaking, the first morpheme appears before the second.
- The data points were ordinally arranged to show progression over time.
- The positions were ordinally numbered on the chart.
- We ordinally categorized the results by their sequence of occurrence.