cardinalize

== English == === Etymology === From cardinal +‎ -ize. === Verb === 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. (poetic, rare, transitive) To turn red, like the robes of a cardinal. ==== Derived terms ==== cardinalization ==== See also ==== ordinalize