cardinal
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(s) serving as an essential component
- a cardinal rule
- the central cause of the problem
- an example that was fundamental to the argument
- computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure
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(a) being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order
- cardinal numbers
Nouns
- (n) (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes
- (n) the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order cardinal number,
- (n) a variable color averaging a vivid red carmine,
- (n) crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male cardinal grosbeak, Cardinalis cardinalis, Richmondena Cardinalis, redbird,