Etymology : Middle English nomen, from past participle of nimen to take; more at NIM
Pronunciation : n&m
Function : adjective
Date : 14th century
1. mathematical value or its symbol; identifying numeral (e.g. of a house); indefinite amount, quantity of; sum, tally; act in a performance, musical piece; unit in a series; mathematics; quantity (Grammar); unique thing or person (Informal). count; assign a number; equal in amount; limit, allot; be included in (a specific group); total, add up to. see:
do a number. number\num"ber\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. numbered ; p. pr & vb. n. numbering.] [oe. nombren, noumbren, f. nombrer, fr. l. numerare, numeratum. see:
number, n.].
2. to count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate. if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. xiii.
3. 2. to reckon as one of a collection or multitude. he was numbered with the transgressors. liii.
4. 3. 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.
5. to amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand. thy tears can not number the dead. ampbell.
6. 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.
7. A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many.
8. A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door.
9. Numerousness; multitude.
10. The state or quality of being numerable or countable.
11. Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.
12. That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; chiefly used in the plural.
13. The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one , expressed 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.
14. 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.
15. To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate.
16. To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.
17. 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.
18. To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand. an item of merchandise offered for sale; "she preferred the black nylon number"; "this sweater is an all-wool number" a clothing measurement; "a number 13 shoe" the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals; "he had a number of chores to do"; "the number of parameters is small"; "the figure was about a thousand" the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved ; "in English the subject and the verb must agree in number" a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification; "she refused to give them her Social Security number" a select company of people; "I hope to become one of their number before I die" a concept of quantity derived from zero and units; "every number has a unique position in the sequence" place a limit on the number of enumerate; "We must number the names of the great mathematicians" give numbers to; "You should number the pages of the thesis".
19. Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold.
20. Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night.
21. To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy. make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses".
22. 1. A number is a word such as `two', `nine', or `twelve', or a symbol such as 1, 3, or.
23. You use numbers to say how many things you are referring to or where something comes in a series. No, I don't know the room number Stan Laurel was born at number 3, Argyll Street The number 47 bus leaves in 10 minutes.
24. You use number with words such as `large' or `small' to say approximately how many things or people there are. Quite a considerable number of interviews are going on I have had an enormous number of letters from single parents Growing numbers of people in the rural areas are too frightened to vote.
25. If there are a number of things or people, there are several of them. If there are any number of things or people, there is a large quantity of them. I seem to remember that Sam told a number of lies There must be any number of people in my position.
26. You can refer to someone's or something's position in a list of the most successful or most popular of a particular type of thing as, for example, number one or number two. the world number one, Tiger Woods Before you knew it, the single was at Number 90 in the US singles charts.
27. If a group of people or things numbers a particular total, that is how many there are. They told me that their village numbered 100 This time the dead were numbered in hundreds, not dozens.
28. A number is the series of numbers that you dial when you are making a telephone call. Sarah sat down and dialled a number. a list of names and telephone numbers My number is 414-3925 `You must have a wrong number,' she said. `There's no one of that name here.'.
29. You can refer to a short piece of music, a song, or a dance as a number. `Unforgettable', a number that was written and performed in 1951 Responsibility for the dance numbers was split between Robert Alton and the young George Balanchine.
30. If someone or something is numbered among a particular group, they are believed to belong in that group. The Leicester Swannington Railway is numbered among Britain's railway pioneers He numbered several Americans among his friends.
31. If you number something, you mark it with a number, usually starting at.
32. He cut his paper up into tiny squares, and he numbered each one see also:
opposite number, prime number, serial number.
33. If you say that someone's or something's days are numbered, you mean that they will not survive or be successful for much longer. Critics believe his days are numbered because audiences are tired of watching him.
34. If you refer to the numbers game, the numbers racket, or the numbers, you are referring to an illegal lottery or illegal betting. see also:
numbers game.
35. safety in numbers: see:
safety. Basic element of mathematics used for counting, measuring, solving equations, and comparing quantities. They fall into several categories. The counting numbers are the familiar 1, 2, 3 . . . ; whole numbers are the counting numbers and zero; integers are the whole numbers and the negative counting numbers; and the rational numbers are all possible quotients formed by integers, including fractions. These numbers can be symbolically represented by terminating or repeating decimals. Irrational numbers cannot be represented by fractions of integers or repeating decimals and must be represented by special symbols such as SquareRoot(2), e, and . Together, the rational and irrational numbers constitute the real numbers, which form an algebraic field (see:
field theory), as do the complex numbers. While the counting numbers and rational numbers come about as the means of counting, calculating, and measuring, the others arose as means of solving equations. See also transcendental number. atomic number Avogadro's number complex number imaginary number International Standard Book Number irrational number number system number theory prime number rational number real number Reynolds number transcendental number.
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