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ordinal variable

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.66 in modern English

Syllables
or-di-nal -vari-able
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A variable with values whose order is significant, but on which no meaningful arithmetic-like operations can be performed.

Inflected Forms

ordinal variables (plural)

Phrases

ordinal scale

Frequently Paired Words

ordinal scale categorical variable nominal variable cardinal variable interval variable ratio variable

Questions

What does ordinal variable mean?
A variable with values whose order is significant, but on which no meaningful arithmetic-like operations can be performed.

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