ordinally
- adverb
- /ˈɔrdənlɪ/
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ordinalmente
- In the classroom, students were seated ordinally according to their performance in last week's exam.
Examples
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The team listed their goals ordinally, prioritizing the most important objectives at the top.
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These were arranged ordinally, based upon the size of the reported numbers or ranges.
Academic text (1993) -
Two of the questionnaire items referred to nine line drawings of male body images which were arranged ordinally from thinnest to heaviest using the letters A through I (A = #1, thinnest drawing to I = #9, heaviest drawing).
Academic text (1996) -
Because the chi-square does not assume ordering or meaningful numerical distances between the response categories, it was the most appropriate test for examining these nominally and ordinally scaled indices.
Academic text (2007) -
Using a 9-point scale, participants' ecstasy use was measured ordinally (0 = "not at all"; 1 = "1-2 times"; 2 = "3-5 times"; 3 = "1× per month"; 4 = "2-3× per month"; 5 = "1× per week"; 6 = "2-3× per week"; 7 = "4-5× per week"; and 8 = "everyday"), capturing the general frequency that the drug was used between each data point.
Academic text (2018) -
The competitors were ranked ordinally, with the first place going to the runner who finished the race fastest.
Synonyms
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4.5
Things happen one after the other in a fixed order
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7.4
In a way that organizes people into clear levels from top leaders to lower staff
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ordinally comes from the old Latin word ordo meaning 'order' or 'row' and shares its root with the common English word order and the adjective ordinal. So, to do something ordinally is to do it by position or rank, like 'first', 'second', 'third'.