cardinality

IPA: kˈɑrdʌnˈæɫɪti

noun

  • (set theory, of a set) The number of elements a given set contains.
  • (type theory) The number of terms that can inhabit a type; the possible values of a type.
  • (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.
  • (religion) The status of being cardinalitial
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Examples of "cardinality" in Sentences

  • One boy, Joshua, used a pointer to illustrate a math concept known as cardinality, by completing place settings on a whiteboard.
  • At recess, one boy, Joshua, used a pointer to illustrate a math concept known as cardinality, by completing place settings on a whiteboard.
  • Thus, if you write card (N) = „µ 0 (read: aleph sub zero), his theorems justified calling the cardinality of the “second number class” „µ 1.
  • For example, it certainly depends on whether your set of trials is countably infinite or uncountably infinite (in other words the cardinality of your set of trials).
  • (Newman 1928, 144) To see how this so-called cardinality constraint applies to ramseyfications of theories, note that in Carnap's hands, the non-observational part of reconstructed theories, their theoretical entities, were represented by “purely logico-mathematical entities, e.g. natural numbers, classes of such, classes of classes, etc.”

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