number
Noun
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is a type of: amount - the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterionsubtypes:
- multiplicity, numerosity, numerousness - a large number
- preponderance, prevalence - a superiority in numbers or amount
- countlessness, innumerableness - a number beyond counting
- bulk, majority - the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part
- minority - being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts
- fewness - the quality of being small in number
- roundness - the quality of being round numbers
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is a type of: definite quantity - a specific measure of amountsubtypes:
- arity - the number of arguments that a function can take
- co-ordinate, coordinate - a number that identifies a position relative to an axis
- folio, page number, pagination, paging - the system of numbering pages
- decimal - a number in the decimal system
- constant - a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context
- oxidation number, oxidation state - the degree of oxidation of an atom or ion or molecule; for simple atoms or ions the oxidation number is equal to the ionic charge
- cardinality - (mathematics) the number of elements in a set or group (considered as a property of that grouping)
- count - the total number counted
- factor - any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together
- fibonacci number - a number in the Fibonacci sequence
- prime, prime quantity - a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself
- composite number - an integer that is divisible without remainder by at least one positive integer other than itself and one
- score - a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest
- record - the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had
- compound number - a quantity expressed in two different units
- no., ordinal, ordinal number - the number designating place in an ordered sequence
- cardinal, cardinal number - the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order
- base, radix - (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
- floating-point number - a number represented in floating-point notation
- fixed-point number - a number represented in fixed-point notation
- atomic number - the order of an element in Mendeleyev's table of the elements; equal to the number of protons in the nucleus or electrons in the neutral state of an atom of an element
- baryon number - a number equal to the difference between the number of baryons and the number of antibaryons in any subatomic structure; it is conserved in all types of particle interactions
- quota - a prescribed number
- linage, lineage - the number of lines in a piece of printed material
- natural number - the number 1 and any other number obtained by adding 1 to it repeatedly
- integer, whole number - any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero
- addend - a number that is added to another number (the augend)
- augend - a number to which another number (the addend) is added
- minuend - the number from which the subtrahend is subtracted
- subtrahend - the number to be subtracted from the minuend
- difference, remainder - the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend
- complex number, complex quantity, imaginary, imaginary number - (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1
- second power, square - the product of two equal terms
- cube, third power - the product of three equal terms
- biquadrate, biquadratic, fourth power, quartic - an algebraic equation or function of the fourth degree
- root - a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- dividend - a number to be divided by another number
- divisor - the number by which a dividend is divided
- quotient - the number obtained by division
- remainder - the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor
- multiplier, multiplier factor - the number by which a multiplicand is multiplied
- multiplicand - the number that is multiplied by the multiplier
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is a type of: performance, public presentation - a dramatic or musical entertainmentsubtypes: show-stopper, showstopper, stopper - an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down
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same as: phone number, telephone number
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is a type of: symbol - an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significancesubtypes:
- arabic numeral, hindu numeral, hindu-arabic numeral - one of the symbols 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0
- roman numeral - a symbol in the old Roman notation; I,V,X,L,C,D,M represent 1,5,10,50,100,500,1000 respectively in Arabic notation
- antilog, antilogarithm - the number of which a given number is the logarithm
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is a type of: periodical - a publication that appears at fixed intervalssubtypes: edition - an issue of a newspapersame as: issue
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is a type of: company - a social gathering of guests or companions
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is a type of: positive identification - evidence proving that you are who you say you are; evidence establishing that you are among the group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to acceptancesubtypes:
- aba transit number, bank identification number, bin - an identification number consisting of a two-part code assigned to banks and savings associations; the first part shows the location and the second identifies the bank itself
- license number, registration number - the number on the license plate that identifies the car that bears it
- social security number - the number of a particular individual's Social Security account
- personal identification number, pin, pin number - a number you choose and use to gain access to various accounts
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domain usage: colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speechis a type of: size - the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing)
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is a type of: item - a whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection
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is a type of: grammatical category, syntactic category - (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Verb
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is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)subtypes:
- work out - be calculated
- outnumber - be larger in number
- average, average out - amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain
- make - add up to
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is a type of: denominate, designate - assign a name or title to
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is a type of: identify, name - give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic propertysame as: list
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is a type of: assort, class, classify, separate, sort, sort out - arrange or order by classes or categoriessame as: count
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is a type of: ascertain, determine, find, find out - establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or studysubtypes:
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same as: keep down
Found on Word Lists
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- Nouns denoting man-made objects
- Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
- Specific
- Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
- Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
- Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
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