cardinalize
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Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
cardinalize (third-person singular simple present cardinalizes, present participle cardinalizing, simple past and past participle cardinalized)
- (economics) to transform an ordinal measure (where distance between points doesn't matter, just the ordering) into a cardinal one (where distance matters).
- To exalt to the office of a cardinal.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sheldon to this entry?)