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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