Definition of number

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Number (n.) Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things..

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Myriad :: Myriad (n.) An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely large number.
Infinitude :: Infinitude (n.) Boundless number; countless multitude.
Vast :: Vast (superl.) Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money..
Make :: Make (v. t.) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day..
Vote :: Vote (n.) Expression of judgment or will by a majority; legal decision by some expression of the minds of a number; as, the vote was unanimous; a vote of confidence..
Board :: Board (n.) A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc..
Gunnage :: Gunnage (n.) The number of guns carried by a ship of war.
Several :: Several (a.) Consisting of a number more than two, but not very many; divers; sundry; as, several persons were present when the event took place..
Numeration :: Numeration (n.) The act or art of reading numbers when expressed by means of numerals. The term is almost exclusively applied to the art of reading numbers written in the scale of tens, by the Arabic method..
Chromograph :: Chromograph (n.) An apparatus by which a number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph..
Cluster :: Cluster (n.) A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands..
Leucocythemia :: Leucocythemia (n.) A disease in which the white corpuscles of the blood are largely increased in number, and there is enlargement of the spleen, or the lymphatic glands; leuchaemia..
Sice :: Sice (n.) The number six at dice.
#NAME? :: -mo () A suffix added to the names of certain numerals or to the numerals themselves, to indicate the number of leaves made by folding a sheet of paper; as, sixteenmo or 16mo; eighteenmo or 18mo. It is taken from the Latin forms similarly used; as, duodecimo, sextodecimo, etc. A small circle, placed after the number and near its top, is often used for -mo; as, 16¡, 18¡, etc..
Twenty :: Twenty (n.) The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score..
Nippers :: Nippers (n. pl.) A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger..
Table :: Table (n.) Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables,
Nondecane :: Nondecane (n.) A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, a white waxy substance, C19H40; -- so called from the number of carbon atoms in the molecule..
Pack :: Pack (n.) A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden..
Plural :: Plural (n.) The plural number; that form of a word which expresses or denotes more than one; a word in the plural form.
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