Ordinal (adjective)

1. Indicating a position in a series or sequence.
2. A number indicating position in a series.

Origin:

The word "ordinal" comes from the latin word "ordinalis" meaning "of or relating to an order", it refers to indicating a position in a series or sequence, or a number indicating position in a series.

Examples:

1. In ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc. are examples of ordinal numbers.
2. The ordinal position of a word in a dictionary is its position among the words in alphabetical order.
3. The ordinal number of a data point is its position in a data set when the data is sorted.
4. In linguistic typology, ordinal classifiers are a type of classifier that indicate the position of an entity in a sequence.
5. In statistics, ordinal data is a type of data that has a natural order, such as "low", "medium", and "high".