early 14c., "book setting forth the order of services in the Church," from Late Latin adjective ordinalis (see ordinal (adj.)).
ordinal (adj.)
late 14c., "regular, ordinary," from Old French ordinel and directly from Late Latin ordinalis ""showing order, denoting an order of succession," from Latin ordo (genitive ordinis) "row, series" (see order (n.)). Meaning "marking position in an order or series" is from 1590s.
权威例句
1. Individual data items or records can be identified by a key or ordinal.
单个数据项或记录可用关键字和顺序号识别出来.
2. Unit of choose and employ persons can ordinal applicable.
用人单位只能依次适用.
3. The columns collection can be indexed only by name or ordinal.
列集合只能按名称或序号编入索引中.
4. The passed ordinal is out of range of the specified collection.
传递的序数超出了指定集合的范围.
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