Cardinal

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Cardinal or The Cardinal may refer to:

Christianity

• Cardinal (Catholic Church), a senior official of the Catholic Church
• Cardinal (Church of England), two members of the College of Minor Canons of St. Paul's Cathedral

Navigation

• Cardinal direction, the four primary directions N, S, E, and W
• Cardinal mark, a sea mark used in navigation

Mathematics

• Cardinal number
  • Large cardinal

Animals

• Cardinal (bird) or Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
  • Cardinalis, genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae
  • Cardinalis cardinalis, or Northern Cardinal, the common cardinal of eastern North America
• Argynnis pandora, a species of butterfly
• Cardinal tetra, a freshwater fish
• Paroaria, a South American genus of birds

Places

• Cardinal, Manitoba, Canada
• Cardinal, Ontario, Canada
• Cardinal High School (Middlefield, Ohio), a public high school in Middlefield, Ohio, Geauga County, United States
• Cardinal Power Plant, a power plant in Jefferson County, Ohio
• Cardinal, Virginia, United States
• C/2008 T2 (Cardinal), a comet

Arts, entertainment, and media

Plants

• Cardinal (grape), a table grape first produced in California in 1939
• Lobelia cardinalis, also known as "cardinal flower"

Businesses

• Cardinal Brewery, a brewery founded in 1788 by François Piller, located in Fribourg, Switzerland
• Cardinal Health, a health care services company

Sports

• Arizona Cardinals, an American professional football team
• Assindia Cardinals, an American football club from Essen, Germany
• Ball State Cardinals, the athletic teams of Ball State University
• Cardenales de Lara, a Venezuelan baseball team
• Catholic University Cardinals, the athletic teams of the Catholic University of America
• Front Royal Cardinals, an American baseball team
• Lamar Cardinals, the athletic teams of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, USA
• Louisville Cardinals, the athletic teams of University of Louisville
• Mapúa Cardinals, the athletic teams of Mapúa Institute of Technology
• North Central Cardinals, the athletic teams of North Central College
• St. John Fisher Cardinals, the athletic teams of St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY
• St. Louis Cardinals, an American professional baseball team
• Stanford Cardinal, the athletic teams of Stanford University
• Wesleyan Cardinals, the athletic teams of Wesleyan University
• West Perth Football Club, an Australian rules football club in Western Australia
• Woking F.C., an English football team

Transport

Linguistics

• Cardinal number (linguistics), a part of speech for expressing numbers by name
• Cardinal vowel, a concept in phonetics

Other uses

• Cardinal (color), a vivid red
• Cardinal (name), a surname
• Cardinal, a Ruby programming language implementation using for the Parrot virtual machine

See also

• Cardenal, a surname
• Cardinal sin or cardinal syn
• Cardinale, a surname