cardinalize (English, verb)
expansion: cardinalize (third-person singular simple present cardinalizes, present participle cardinalizing, simple past and past participle cardinalized)
Senses:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: to transform an ordinal measure (where distance between points doesn't matter, just the ordering) into a cardinal one (where distance matters).
glosses: To exalt to the office of a cardinal.
glosses: To turn red, like the robes of a cardinal.
tags: poetic
rare
transitive
Forms:
form: cardinalizes
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cardinalizing
tags: participle
present
form: cardinalized
tags: participle
past
form: cardinalized
tags: past