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Cardinality vs Priority - What's the difference?

cardinality | priority |

As nouns the difference between cardinality and priority

is that cardinality is of a set, the number of elements it contains while priority is an item's relative importance.

cardinality

English

(wikipedia cardinality)

Noun

(cardinalities)
  • (set theory) Of a set, the number of elements it contains.
    • The empty set has a cardinality of zero.
  • (data modeling) The property of a relationship between a database table and another one, specifying whether it is one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many.

    • Synonyms

    * (in set theory) power

    Related terms

    * cardinal

    See also

    * aleph * cardinal number * multiplicity

    priority

    English

    (wikipedia priority)

    Noun

    (priorities)
  • An item's relative importance.
    • He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
  • A goal of a person or an organisation.
    • She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.
  • (taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
  • *
    • Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority ."
  • (obsolete) Precedence; superior rank.
  • * 1608 , , I. i. 244:
    • Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.

    Derived terms

    * aperture priority * prioritise / prioritize * prioritization * shutter priority * top priority