1. Noun
That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures.
2. Noun
A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many.
3. Noun
A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door.
4. Noun
Numerousness; multitude.
5. Noun
The state or quality of being numerable or countable.
6. Noun
Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.
7. Noun
That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural.
8. Noun
The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than one.
9. Noun
The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value.
10. Noun
To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate.
11. Noun
To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.
12. Noun
To give or apply a number or numbers to; to assign the place of in a series by order of number; to designate the place of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses in a street, or the apartments in a building.
13. Noun
To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand.
14. Verb
enumerate; "We must number the names of the great mathematicians"
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary
15. Noun
the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural); "in English the subject and the verb must agree in number"
Vocabulary classified under Biology
16. Noun
an item of clothing; "she preferred the black nylon number"; "this sweater is an all-wool number"
Vocabulary classified under Business and finance
17. Noun
the number is used in calling a particular telephone; "he has an unlisted number"
Vocabulary classified under Business and finance
18. Noun
a clothing measurement; "a number 13 shoe"
Vocabulary classified under Research methods
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