Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

large cardinal

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.89 in modern English

Syllables: large -car-di-nal
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A cardinal number whose existence cannot be proved from the usual Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms of set theory, and which therefore requires a new axiom stating its existence.

Inflected Forms

large cardinals (plural)

Questions

What does large cardinal mean?: A cardinal number whose existence cannot be proved from the usual Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms of set theory, and which therefore requires a new axiom stating its existence.

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