cardinality vs nature

cardinality

noun
  • The number of terms that can inhabit a type; the possible values of a type. 

  • The number of elements a given set contains. 

  • The status of being cardinalitial 

  • 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. 

nature

noun
  • The distinguishing characteristic of a person or thing, understood as its general class, sort, type, etc. 

  • Spontaneous love, affection, or reverence, especially between parent and child. 

  • The essential or innate characteristics of a person or thing which will always tend to manifest, especially in contrast to specific contexts, reason, religious duty, upbringing, and personal pretense or effort. 

  • The need to urinate and defecate. 

  • Sexual desire. 

  • The way things are, the totality of all things in the physical universe and their order, especially the physical world in contrast to spiritual realms and flora and fauna as distinct from human conventions, art, and technology. 

  • The vital functions or strength of someone or something, especially (now dialect) as requiring nourishment or careful maintenance or (medicine) as a force of regeneration without special treatment. 

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