Definition: Two or more words (such as part-time or high-speed) that act as a single idea to modify a noun (a part-time employee, a high-speed chase). Also called phrasal adjective or compound modifier. As a general rule, the words in a compound adjective are hyphenated when they come before a noun (a well-known actor) but not when they come after (The actor is well known). Also, compound adjectives formed with an adverb ending in-ly (such as rapidly changing) are usually not hyphenated.
Life on a Mediaeval Barony William Stearns Davis. ordinarily it is a mass of moving light and shade, of color. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 Charles Herbert Sylvester. ordinarily I would have laughed, hot ashes on the father and hot coals under the son, but now I sighed deeply.
A type of data that represents values and observations that can be ranked or ordered. to put something in order. On the ordinal scale, only the order of the numbers is meaningful, not the numbers themselves. this is because the intervals or distances between categories are not necessarily equal.